The Old and New Testaments of Corporatism: Is it a Political Form or a Method of Policy-Making?

Cox, Andrew

doi:10.1111/j.1467-9248.1988.tb00230.x

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“… See Gerlich et al (1988) for a critique of this trend based on the Austrian case.4 One of the few attempts to correct this problem came fromCawson (1986), who rejected distinction between corporatism and concertation andCox's (1982) distinction between state corporatism and pluralism [see also the debate betweenCox (1988) andCawson (1988)]. In Cawson's view, both Schmitter and Cox tried to draw a clear distinction between the political form of the state and the nature of policy making, when in practice no such distinction can be made.Annu.…”

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CORPORATISM: The Past, Present, and Future of a Concept

Romo

Rhodes

2002

Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci.

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Following a period of almost obsessive academic attention in the 1980s, in the early 1990s the concept of corporatism fell from favor, as its explanatory powers appeared to wane and the Keynesian welfare systems under which it had flourished apparently fell into decline. In the late 1990s, a new interest in corporatism emerged, in line with new patterns of concertation and corporatist behavior in some unexpected places-countries in which the institutional basis for collaborative, bargained methods of policy making and conflict resolution seemed distinctly unpromising. We review the extensive literature on corporatism since the 1970s and consider its applicability in the contemporary period. We argue that an excessively structural-functionalist interpretation of corporatism led many wrongly to predict its demise as a form of policy making, and that an understanding of its persistence and new manifestations today must resurrect and strengthen some early, recently neglected insights into processes of political exchange.

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CORPORATISM: The Past, Present, and Future of a Concept

Romo

Rhodes

2002

Annu. Rev. Polit. Sci.

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“…The contemporary relevance of group theory has been defended by Kelso (1978), Richardson and Jordan (1979) and Ham and Hill (1984), and its lack of popularity explained by Garson (1978) as ''more a matter of mood and imagery than of science and evidence''. Group theory has suffered by association with pluralist models (John, 1998), though pluralism is ''a description of a political form of the state, in which the question of which interests dominate is an open empirical question'' (Cox, 1988). Pluralist models were even criticized for assumptions they did not make (Jordan, 1990), e.g.…”

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Autonomy, ambiguity and symbolism in African politics: The development of forest policy in Sierra Leone

Grainger

Konteh

2007

Land Use Policy

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“…This problem is emphasized by Cox in discussing the corporatist analysis of the policy process. He suggests that corporatist theory has not led to any insight into how policy is made and implemented (Cox, 1988). The methodology of corporatist and pluralist analysis is also the concern of Cohen and Pavoncello (1987).…”

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Corporatism and ‘Political Context’ in the Federal Republic of Germany

Fuchs

Koch

1991

Environ Plann C Gov Policy

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The corporatist-pluralist debate is explored as it applies to the Federal Republic of Germany. It is argued that the Federal Republic has an 'accommodationalist' political structure in which elements that resemble both corporatism and pluralism may be found. Corporatism and pluralism really explain two fundamentally different phenomenon. It is implicitly and explicitly argued that the mutual exclusivity of corporatism and pluralism, widely taken for granted in the literature, is more apparent than real. The apparent tension between the two models results from the epistemological parameters that are engaged in the process of model building. The empirical basis for the discussion stems from an in-depth analysis of present industrial policies.

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The Old and New Testaments of Corporatism: Is it a Political Form or a Method of Policy-Making?

Cited by 50 publications

References 11 publications

CORPORATISM: The Past, Present, and Future of a Concept

CORPORATISM: The Past, Present, and Future of a Concept

Autonomy, ambiguity and symbolism in African politics: The development of forest policy in Sierra Leone

Corporatism and ‘Political Context’ in the Federal Republic of Germany

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