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The political corporate social responsibility (PCSR) approach in business ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR) studies aims to challenge primarily the dominant economic understanding of CSR supported by the classical liberal political doctrine. To do that, PCSR has introduced a globalist narrative of post-national constellation, arguably undermining the liberal ideals of how to organize a liberal market economy. In addition, PCSR has introduced deliberative democracy (from its traditional setting of state and law) to business settings. The central idea of PCSR has been to create a new political understanding of trans- and multinational corporations as state-like political actors in the global economy. To deliver legitimacy to these global political actors operating in contexts where the liberal separations between politics, business, and civil society are blurred or vanished, PCSR appeals to deliberative democracy. However, critics have argued that rather than promoting democracy, firms’ involvement in the provision of public goods and their use of deliberative democratic processes and structures may undermine democracy. This chapter assesses the novelty of the PCSR approach, its relationship to liberal democratic political tradition, and ways in which PCSR contributes to the liberal democratic understanding and practice of deliberative democracy. The main argument of the chapter is that PCSR takes on board too narrow a perspective on the liberal political tradition and exaggerates the globalization processes. For these reasons, it is not able to deliver a convincing political theory alternative to the classical liberal political doctrine (supporting the mainstream economic CSR) that could deliver institutional structures and background justice needed for deliberative democracy. To move forward in its aims, PCSR discussion could take on board a broader perspective on the liberal political tradition and focus more on the resources of high liberalism to deliver institutional settings needed for a stable deliberative democracy.

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Political Corporate Social Responsibility (PCSR)

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    2026年

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  • Jukka Veikko Mäkinen

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The political corporate social responsibility (PCSR) approach in business ethics and corporate social responsibility (CSR) studies aims to challenge primarily the dominant economic understanding of CSR supported by the classical liberal political doctrine. To do that, PCSR has introduced a globalist narrative of post-national constellation, arguably undermining the liberal ideals of how to organize a liberal market economy. In addition, PCSR has introduced deliberative democracy (from its traditional setting of state and law) to business settings. The central idea of PCSR has been to create a new political understanding of trans- and multinational corporations as state-like political actors in the global economy. To deliver legitimacy to these global political actors operating in contexts where the liberal separations between politics, business, and civil society are blurred or vanished, PCSR appeals to deliberative democracy. However, critics have argued that rather than promoting democracy, firms’ involvement in the provision of public goods and their use of deliberative democratic processes and structures may undermine democracy. This chapter assesses the novelty of the PCSR approach, its relationship to liberal democratic political tradition, and ways in which PCSR contributes to the liberal democratic understanding and practice of deliberative democracy. The main argument of the chapter is that PCSR takes on board too narrow a perspective on the liberal political tradition and exaggerates the globalization processes. For these reasons, it is not able to deliver a convincing political theory alternative to the classical liberal political doctrine (supporting the mainstream economic CSR) that could deliver institutional structures and background justice needed for deliberative democracy. To move forward in its aims, PCSR discussion could take on board a broader perspective on the liberal political tradition and focus more on the resources of high liberalism to deliver institutional settings needed for a stable deliberative democracy.