ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on political corporate social responsibility (CSR) as a social liberal theory devoted to promoting liberal democracy, and hence it provides an important argument for the idea of the social liberal corporation. It discusses the notion of the social liberal corporation to draw out its main features and how the theories of corporate citizenship and political CSR provide support. A first step in clarifying and reconstructing the possible connection between political CSR and the organization is to look for sources in the literature that address the organization as a democratic community exhibiting a pluralist culture and governance. Political CSR and theories of “corporate citizenship” dispute the standard liberal perception of the public-private distinction, according to which the sphere of the business corporation is purely private. The basic necessary conditions of organizations to satisfy political CSR theory have been identified as democratic governance, operating in between the public and private spheres, and adopting the social connection model.
