The corporatist pluralist debate is explored as it applies to the Federal Republic of Germany. It is argued that the Federal Republic has an 'accommodationalist' political structure in which elements that resemble both corporatism and pluralism may be found. Corporatism and pluralism really explain two fundamentally different phenomenon. It is implicitly and explicitly argued that the mutual ex...

The old American dilemma was the contradiction between the racial caste system and the American liberal conscience. The Civil Rights Revolution of the Sixties abolished the old racial caste system in its legal aspects, but failed to completely alter the relation between racial groups in America in a way that satisfied the aspirations of the Peoples of Color. In response to this a system of raci...

In this paper we consider a standard policy game between the Government and a union. In such a framework, we first investigate the effects of corporatism on macroeconomic performance vis -à-vis different kinds of non-cooperative equilibria. Afterwards, we introduce in the literature the issue of the feasibility of corporatism, i.e., whether and under what conditions it is in the interest of bot...

This paper studies corporatism as the outcome of bargaining between the government and a representative labor union. We show that if negotiations between these two parties only relate to macroeconomic stabilization, corporatism can never be beneficial to both parties. As corporatist policies are nevertheless commonly observed in this context, we discuss possible explanations that reconcile the ...

This paper distinguishes between two dimensions of corporatism: as a particular structure of the interest representation system, characterized by monopolistic, centralized, and internally non-democratic associations, and as a particular policy-making process, also known as “concertation” or “social partnership.” While the former dimension of corporatism is more or less “dead,” having exhausted ...

Corporatism, once used to mediate conflict in labour relations and primary production, has emerged in the policy and regulatory networks around the Toronto Stock Exchange. It is a lop-sided corporatism which excludes representative participation by consumers. Corporatism as an explanatory theory once competed with models of pluralism. It is now obscured by new theories in regulatory studies. Co...

▪ This article discusses three major issues related to tripartite social pacts: first, the puzzles they present for classic theories of corporatism; second, the contrasts between the political economies of ‘competitive concertation’ and Keynesian coordination; and third, the problems of assessing their effects in the context of complex causality. The main focus is on one specific policy area: n...

One of the most important, but until now neglected, aspects of the new politics of welfare in western Europe concerns new nationally-negotiated social pacts, referred to in a previous article as ‘competitive corporatism’ (Rhodes 1998) to distinguish them from traditional forms of social corporatism and to signal their competitiveness rationale. These pacts, which have proliferated since the lat...

Phelps, Edmund, and Zoega, Gylfi—Corporatism and job satisfaction We introduce reported job satisfaction as a measure of economic performance and find it positively correlated with GDP per capita and the labor force participation rate in a sample of OECD countries and negatively correlated with unemployment. Moreover, we find that many measures of corporatism, which we define in the wider sense...