Organized Interests and the State: Studies in Meso-Corporatism

Organized Interests and the State represents a new application of corporatist research to the study of how public policies are formed in Western democracies. By shifting the focus from the macrolevel concerning broad societal trends and comparisons of national systems to an analysis of political processes at a subnational level, the studies presented mark an important extension of corporatist theory. Countries such as the U.K. and Canada, not previously seen as conforming to a corporatist model, are here brought within the parameters of corporatist analysis. The comparison of sectors across countries--meso-level studies--rather than analysis of whole political systems, reveals significant corporatist patterns in all the six countries examined, across a wide range of policy arenas. At this sectoral level, organized business and industrial interests are seen to interact with state agencies in policy formation. What emerges is a new model of interest-group politics that is not concerned with aggregating broad class interests but reflects the more specific concerns of particular interest categories.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803997191
• ISBN13: 9780803997196
• Release Date: October 1985
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.8" x 5.5"