Secondary Associations and Democratic Governance

La madurez de la democracia deliberativa

“…La versión fuerte establece que no puede regular su contexto en absoluto y así hace inalterables a los hechos sociales. El modelo de la "democracia asociativa" de Cohen y Rogers realiza en mayor medida la democracia deliberativa precisamente al cambiar el contexto donde está integrada; sin negar el hecho de la complejidad en sentido débil, algunos contextos deben ser dejados a formas de organización no democráticas (Cohen y Rogers, 1992). De este modo, toda vez que no es factible ni deseable para todos los contextos sociales ser sujetos de control democrático y deliberativo, la medida en la cual los contextos sociales pueden ser puestos bajo control depende de identificar algunos aspectos que requieren una transformación.…”

The Local is Now Global

“…The Working Group thus became an experiment that goes beyond the immediate and lays the foundation for a broader political engagement within a globalised sector than has hitherto been realized. The unions not only spoke on behalf of workers qua workers, they built an alliance which has the capacity to be both transformative and solidaristic (Unger, 1998: 10-16; see also Cohen and Rogers, 1995;Cohen, 1997;Fearon, 1998).…”

The composite economy: local politics and industrial change in contemporary Italy

“…Cohen and Rogers (1992) Granovetter (1973Granovetter ( , 1982 has claimed that economic actors linked to one another through many "weak" ties will more easily be able to receive and transmit information than will actors linked by a few "strong" ties.…”

“…In contrast to accounts which focus on national institutional arrangements to explain differences in economic performance across nations, I look at the micro-level, at the strategic choices of the economic actors and how these choices are shaped by local socio-political networks, to understand diverse patterns of industrial politics within the same nation-state. (Tarrow 1977;Dente 1985), the role of secondary associations and organized interest groups in democratic governance (Berger 1972;Cohen and Rogers 1992;Putnam 1992), the importance of social and 19 Bagnasco (1977) identifies three dictinct socio-economic patterns associated with the three major territorial divisions (North, Center, and South) of the country but according to Paul Ginsborg, "...in purely historical terms it would be better to talk not of three Italys but of three hundred." (A History of Contemporary Italy: 3).…”