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First published in 1980. In Pluralism and Corporatism the author
examines the 'pluralist' conception of democratic advanced
industrial societies and shows to what extent an alternative
conception the 'corporatist' society is more appropriate today. The
book reviews criticisms of standard conceptions of industrial
society and draws empirical support for some new approaches from
the politics of Britain, France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Italy,
Japan and the United States: an analysis which shows that there are
tendencies everywhere towards the fragmentation of government
responsibility and its assumption both by governmental and
organised group bureaucracies. The author argues that this pattern
of policy-making is in fact in conflict with standards of behaviour
which are fundamental to the ideal of representative and
accountable democratic government. Both critical review and
analysis are organised in a way which will maximise the usefulness
of Pluralism and Corporatism as a theoretical complement to those
more standard texts in comparative government which already provide
a study in-depth of individual countries. It seeks to review
changing political culture, political economy, party and interest
intermediation, bureaucratic influence, constitutional effects on
political behaviour and the international constraints upon
government which arise from interdependence. It will become
essential reading for courses on the politics of advanced
industrial societies and particularly of Western Europe.
First published in 1980. In Pluralism and Corporatism the author
examines the 'pluralist' conception of democratic advanced
industrial societies and shows to what extent an alternative
conception the 'corporatist' society is more appropriate today. The
book reviews criticisms of standard conceptions of industrial
society and draws empirical support for some new approaches from
the politics of Britain, France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Italy,
Japan and the United States: an analysis which shows that there are
tendencies everywhere towards the fragmentation of government
responsibility and its assumption both by governmental and
organised group bureaucracies. The author argues that this pattern
of policy-making is in fact in conflict with standards of behaviour
which are fundamental to the ideal of representative and
accountable democratic government. Both critical review and
analysis are organised in a way which will maximise the usefulness
of Pluralism and Corporatism as a theoretical complement to those
more standard texts in comparative government which already provide
a study in-depth of individual countries. It seeks to review
changing political culture, political economy, party and interest
intermediation, bureaucratic influence, constitutional effects on
political behaviour and the international constraints upon
government which arise from interdependence. It will become
essential reading for courses on the politics of advanced
industrial societies and particularly of Western Europe.
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