Corporations recruit proxy advocates to attack opponents’ programs

Evidence

Continuing with the exonerative comparative strategy implemented by proxy agents, in a strategy planning document Philip Morris urged enlistment of health advocacy groups to attack governmental funding of smoking cessation programs. “At both the state and Federal levels a number of Health Advocacy groups could also attack Sullivan for failing to address major health care issues-AIDS, prenatal care, teen-pregnancy, affordable health care, child immunization-instead of wasting more Federal dollars Bandura_1e_ch05. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1648

Categorization

• XREF: Proxy-agents strategy parallels how moral disengagement distributes harmful acts across organizational layers, relevant to ordinary people rationalizing policy support through intermediaries.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1648