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dc.contributor.authorSCHMITTER, Philippe C.
dc.contributor.authorZOMPANTI, Vittoria
dc.date.accessioned2013-04-05T09:44:08Z
dc.date.available2013-04-05T09:44:08Z
dc.date.issued1983
dc.identifier.citationStato e mercato, 1983, No. 9 (3), pp. 385-423en
dc.identifier.issn0392-9701
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/26515
dc.description.abstractThe emergence of neo-corporatist arrangements in advanced capitalist countries has become the subject of much theoretical speculation and empirical research in recent years. What has heretofore attracted little explicit scholarly attention is the question of a normative evaluation of the significance of these changes in the way interests are organized and public policies are made. To a large extent, this involves the question of their compatibility with democratic values. Whether neo-corporatism is supportive or destructive of political democracy depends, in the first instance, on how one defines the critical terms, and this is attempted in the first part of the article. Democracy is defined with respect to the application of the principle of citizenship: the right to be treated by fellow human beings as equal and the obligation to respect the legitimacy of choices made by collective deliberation among equals, and the institutionalization of certain qualitative relationships between rulers and ruled: participation, accessibility, accountability, responsiveness and competitiveness. Neo-corporatism is seen as a complex of changes involving both representation and control and affecting both associational members and public authority. The practice of organized interest intermediation, in general, and of neo-corporatist arrangements, in particular, is then assessed in terms of these democratic principles and qualities. The result is a mixed evaluation in which it is argued that these recent changes have the effect of diminishing the equal participation and access of citizens in the political process, while increasing the accountability and responsiveness of public authorities to certain, more equally represented and endowed, associations of class, sectoral and professional interests. The probable long-term consequence of these emergent arrangements upon political competitiveness is also discussed, as is their impact upon citizen interests less susceptibile to neo-corporatist organization.
dc.language.isoenen
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://hdl.handle.net/1814/26514
dc.titleTeoria della democrazia e pratica neo-corporatistaen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.description.versionItalian version of EUI WP 1983/074.


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