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Corporatism

The Past, Present, and Future of a Concept

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ID6232813
AuthorsÓscar Molina (0000-0003-4797-1173, European University Institute), Óscar Molina Romo (0000-0002-8660-8919, European University Institute), Martin Rhodes (0000-0001-9540-5470, European University Institute)
Year2002
Volume5
Issue1
Pages305-331
Publication date2002-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnnual Review of Political Science (BOOK_SERIES)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1094-2939 • E-ISSN: 1545-1577
PublisherAnnual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1146/annurev.polisci.5.112701.184858
OpenAlexW2021465593
LanguageEN
Citations received161
References cited86

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

Corporatism · Demise · Economics · Fell · Interpretation (philosophy · Keynesian economics · Period (music · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Philosophy · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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