Title:What is there to Legitimize in the European Union … and How Might This be Accomplished?
Author(s):SCHMITTER, Philippe C.Date:2001Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:IHS Working PapersAbstract:This paper focuses on the 'problematique' of building the legitimacy (one of the most used and misused concepts in Political Science) of governance (one of the most fashionable concepts in contemporary political discourse) ...
Title:The Organization of Business Interests: Studying the associative action of business in advanced industrial societies
Author(s):SCHMITTER, Philippe C.; STREECK, WolfgangDate:1999Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:MPIfG discussion paperAbstract:The paper presents a theoretical outline for a cross-national comparative study of business associations. It identifies two clusters of independent variables that are assumed to affect the structure of intermediary ...
Title:The Corporatist Sisyphus: Past, Present and Future
Author(s):SCHMITTER, Philippe C.; GROTE, Jurgen R.Date:1997Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI SPSAbstract:We now know that the (re)discovery of corporatism in the mid-1970s was ironic. At the very moment that academics started using the concept to analyze trends in advanced capitalist societies, the practice had already peaked ...
Title:Old "Foundations" and New "Rules" for an Enlarged European Union
Author(s):SCHMITTER, Philippe C.; TORREBLANCA, José IgnacioDate:1997Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:European integration online papersAbstract:This paper presents a novel arrangement for the distribution of votes and the rules of decision-making in an enlarged European Union (EU). We make two assumptions: (1) that the EU is condemned to enlarge its membership in ...
Title:Old "Foundations" and New "Rules" for an Enlarged European Union
Author(s):SCHMITTER, Philippe C.; TORREBLANCA, José IgnacioDate:1997Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Estudios = Working papers (Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Ciencias Sociales)Abstract:This paper presents a novel arrangement for the distribution of votes and the rules of decision-making in an enlarged European Union (EU). It starts from the observation that if one merely transposes the present arrangement ...
Title:The Corporatist Sisyphus: Past, present and future
Author(s):SCHMITTER, Philippe C.; GROTE, Jurgen R.Date:1997Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Nota di lavoro Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
Title:Some Propositions About Civil Society and the Consolidation of Democracy
Author(s):SCHMITTER, Philippe C.Date:1993Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:IHS Reihe PolitikwissenschaftAbstract:»Civil Society« is a concept that has been much discussed in relation to the processes of democratization in Southern Europe, Latin America and, especially, in Eastern Europe. Despite widespread recognition of its potential ...
Title:Comparative Politics at the Crossroads
Author(s):SCHMITTER, Philippe C.Date:1991Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:Estudios = Working papers (Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Ciencias Sociales)
