The term ‘corporatism’ simultaneously designates a particular interest group structure, characterized by monopolistic, centralized and internally nondemocratic associations, and a particular policy-making process, also known as ‘concertation’ or ‘social partnership’. This paper argues that structure and process may no longer be closely associated. By focusing on the Irish and Italian cases, it ...

This paper outlines evolutions in the underlying logic of corporatist policymaking in Western Europe. Starting from the discrepancy between the observable decline in the power of organised labour on the one hand, and the persistence of corporatist concertation as a mode of policymaking on the other, the paper outlines the remaining incentives for governments to involve trade unions and employer...

Nevertheless, it is clear that some initial steps that will change the institutional foundations of health care financing have been taken. The introduction of the federal fund and the (however limited and contested) convergence between SHI and PHI point to an evolutionary change from competitive corporatism to the marketisation of health care (financing), accompanied by a changing role for stat...

This paper examines the possibility of using Jürgen Habermas’s theory of new social movements as a way of making sense of the recent wave of anti-corporate protests. It is argued that anti-corporatism fits with Habermas’s model in many key respects. However, a number of problems in the Habermasian model are identified. Specifically, Habermas limits his focus to the First World and develops his ...

This article examines the deepening of socio-economic inequality manifested as dualisation in South Korea and deregulation Hong Kong. It explains extreme manifestations by reference to nature economic co-ordination, organised labour power societal corporatism, politics democratisation. finds that Korea’s legacy state-orchestrated co-ordinated market economy favoured retention a manufacturing co...