Civil society meets the state

Towards Associational Democracy

Bibliographic Data

ID4237668
AuthorsLucio Baccaro (0000-0001-6410-6179, International Labour Organization, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume4
Issue2
Pages185-208
Publication date2006-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocio-Economic Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1475-1461 • E-ISSN: 1475-147X
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ser/mwj031
OpenAlexW2038681217
LanguageEN
Citations received18
References cited49

This article discusses the ‘associational democratic’ model of relationship between state and civil society organizations, which recommends devolution of as many regulatory functions as possible to local groups and associations with detailed knowledge of problems and possible solutions, extensive monitoring capacities and the potential to deliberate about generalizable as opposed to purely sectional interests. The goal is to introduce greater doses of realism in a model that has, so far, mostly been confined to abstract, normative discussions. The article does so by discussing two themes in particular: the link between associational democracy and neo-corporatism, and the relationship between deliberation—a crucial element in the normative model—and bargaining.

Civil society · Corporatism · Deliberation · Deliberative democracy · Democracy · Devolution (biology) · Element (criminal law) · Epistemology · Law and economics · Normative · Political science · Politics · Realism · Sociology · State (computer science) · Computer Science · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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