Academia.edu no longer supports Internet Explorer.
To browse Academia.edu and the wider internet faster and more securely, please take a few seconds to upgrade your browser.
The analysis of scientific development in the political sciences should do more than provide historical reviews of - or record differences of opinion about - competing concepts and approaches. Such analyses should also enquire into whether it is possible to evaluate specific developments as more or less rational or non-rational, in terms of driving our field of enquiry towards accumulating knowledge about the functioning of the political system. This paper looks into this problematique through an analysis of the neo-corporatist approach in interest group research, an approach the quotations above indicate was both highly successful and controversial.
The Norwegian polity, along with the polities of the other small countries in Western Europe, has frequently been classified as close to the neo-corporatist model of interest group participation in politics (Crepaz 1992, Katzenstein 1985, Lehmbruch 1982, 1984, Schmidt 1982, Schmitter 1981). Focusing on economic politics, the argument in this chapter is that the concept of corporative pluralism gives a better description of Norwegian interest group politics, as pluralist tendencies are clearly detectable, especially in the period from the late 1970s to the present. The discussion follows two dimensions, with two polar opposites reflecting the noted distinction between corporatism and pluralism; (1) the processes of political decision-making and - implementation that involve organised interests and (2) the organisation of functional interests (Lehmbruch 1982, Schmitter 1982).
Institutions and Political Choice, eds R.M. Czada, A. Héritier and H. Keman
The organization of society, administrative strategies, and policy networks: Elements of a developmental theory of interest systems1998 •
Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy
Corporatism and 'political context' in the Federal Republic of Germany1991 •
2002 Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Providence, RI
Globalization and the Challenges to Corporatism in Latin America and Europe: A Comparative Perspective2002 •
Comparative Politics
Interest groups and politics in Western Europe: the neo-corporatist approach1983 •
European Community Studies Association of Canada 5th Bienniel Conference
Can neo-corporatism survive the European Union?(And can the EU survive neo-corporatism?)2002 •
N. J Smelser/Paul B. Baltes (eds.), International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2812-2816
Corporatism2001 •
Staat und Verbände. Hrsg.: Wolfgang Streeck
Konjunkturen des Korporatismus: Zur Geschichte eines Paradigmenwechsels in der VerbändeforschungEuropean Journal of Political Research
Models of interest intermediation and policy formation applied to an internationally comparative study of the dairy industry1992 •
1994 •
VOLUNTAS: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations
Varieties of Democracy: Interest Groups and Corporatist Committees in Scandinavian Policy Making2010 •
Comparative Political Studies
Policy Concertation in Europe: Understanding Government Choice2007 •
… in Europe The Role of Interest …
Contending political-economy perspectives on European interest group activity2004 •
2003 •
Systemic Practice and Action Research
The use of forecasts in energy policy: An application of rule systems theory to the comparative analysis of public policy processes1989 •
2009 •
Government and Opposition
Corporatism is Dead! Long Live Corporatism1989 •
New Directions in Comparative Politics
Corporatism and comparative politics: Is there a new century of corporatism?2002 •
West European Politics
European Political Economy: Labour Out, State Back In, Firm to the Fore2008 •
2003 •
Socio-Economic Review
Civil society meets the state: towards associational democracy?2006 •
TRANSFER - European Review of Labour and Research
The Renaissance of National Corporatism.1999 •
Warntjen and Wonka (eds.) Governance in Europe. The Role of Interest Groups
The Making of Public Policies in the European Union: Linking Theories of Formal Decision-making and Informal Interest Intermediation2004 •
Klaus Frohberg/Peter Weingarten (eds.), The significance of politics and institutions for the design and formation of agricultural policies, 92-104
The intermediation of interests in agricultural policy: Organized interests and policy networks1999 •
European Journal of Political Research
The organizational cohesion and political access of business: a study of comprehensive associations1988 •
XLIII ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops - University of Warsaw
Conceptualising Interest Groups: An Addition to the 1980s2015 •
British Journal of Industrial Relations
What is Alive and What is Dead in the Theory of Corporatism2003 •
British Journal of Political Science
Managing political and societal conflict in democracies: do consensus and corporatism matter?1995 •
EUI Working Paper, SPS, No.97/4
The Corporatist Sisyphus Past Present Future.1997 •