As scholars and activists seek to define and promote greater corporate political responsibility (CPR), they will benefit from understanding practitioner perspectives and how executives are responding to rising scrutiny of their political influences, reputational risk and pressure from employees, customers and investors to get involved in civic, political, and societal issues. This chapter draws on firsthand conversations with practitioners, including executives in government affairs; sustainability; senior leadership; and diversity, equity and inclusion, during the launch of a university-based CPR initiative. I summarize practitioner motivations, interests, barriers and challenges related to engaging in conversations about CPR, as well as committing or acting to improve CPR. Following the summary, I present implications for further research and several possible paths forward, including leveraging practitioners’ value on accountability, sustaining external calls for transparency, strengthening awareness of systems, and reframing CPR as part of a larger dialogue around society’s “social contract.”

Artificial intelligence (AI) and automated decision-making (ADM) tools promise money and unmatched power to banks and governments alike. As the saying goes, they will know everything about their citizens and customers and will also be able to predict their behaviour, preferences, and opinions. Global consulting firm McKinsey estimates that AI technologies will unlock $1 trillion in additional value for the global banking industry every year.1 Governments around the world are getting on the AI bandwagon, expecting increased efficiency, reduced costs, and better insights into their populations.

The terminology of an ‘economic constitution’ is little used in the UK, and coverage of the constitutional aspects of economic management finds only limited (and diminishing) space in the standard constitutional law texts. This is in marked contrast to other European jurisdictions, where the economic constitution is a familiar analytical concept for both domestic and EU law.

The legislature has been one of the central institutions in the UK’s constitutional history, a forum in which major political events occurred and decisions were taken. The legislature projects constitutional values: its practice is based on the significance of representation, accountability, transparency, deliberation, contestation, and collective action. Moreover, the UK Parliament is the focus of the fundamental norm around which the constitution is structured.

It is one of the central functions of Parliament to scrutinise the policies, administration and legislative proposals of the government of the day. This chapter examines the various mechanisms through which Parliament is able to extract information from, and monitor, members of the executive. Against the backdrop of the well-known tendency towards executive dominance of the business of Parliament, this chapter examines the effectiveness of these mechanisms and proposals for their reform.

This chapter explores the irony of Asian Americans as both scrutinized and invisible in a group of Asian American literary works written between 1965 and 1995. These subjects are perceived as remarkable for their racial difference. However, racist laws before 1965 governed their legal status, subsequently circumscribing them politically, socially, and culturally. The paradox of being overly acknowledged for racial difference while ignored as a political or other agential subject renders the Asian American an impossible subject. Indeed, Asian Americans have existed in a state of inconceivability.