Date: 2012
Type: Book
Breakdown and change of private interest governments
Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2012
WAGEMANN, Claudius, Breakdown and change of private interest governments, Abingdon ; New York : Routledge, 2012
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/60589
Retrieved from Cadmus, EUI Research Repository
Private Interest Governments were identified in the 1980s as a special form of public regulation in selected economic sectors, rivalling conventional market, state, or community-based forms of public order. This book examines how these institutional arrangements have changed since their identification. It takes into account external changes such as Europeanization, globalization, liberalization, and sector-specific developments, which have had an impact on even long-established public policies. Breakdown and Change of Private Interest Governments presents new empirical.
Table of Contents:
Introduction;
-- 1 The theoretical framework;
-- 1.1 Interest intermediation between pluralism and corporatism;
-- 1.2 The 'discovery' of the associability of business interests;
-- 1.3 The 'discovery' of economic sectors as categories of analysis and the private interest government in the dairy sector;
-- 1.4 Organizational properties as analytical units; 1.5 Population ecology and new institutionalist approaches to the study of interest groups;
-- 2 Methodology and research techniques.
-- 2.1 Multi-method approaches in comparative case studies
-- 2.2 Case selection;
-- 2.3 Data collection techniques;
-- 3 From government to governance: organizational communities;
-- 3.1 The situation of the dairy industry in four countries;
-- 3.2 Associational sectoral governance in the early 1980s;
-- 3.3 Changes in associational sectoral governance;
-- 3.4 Liechtenstein: a counter-case to Switzerland;
-- 3.5 Varieties of change;
-- 4 From stability to enduring transformation: organizational populations;
-- 4.1 The expansion of the Swiss associational system;
-- 4.2 The concentration of the British associational system.
-- 4.3 Stabilization of the German associational system
-- 4.4 The transformation of the Austrian associational system;
-- 4.5 Diverging and converging paths of change;
-- 4.6 Organizational populations and organizations;
-- 5 From influence to membership: individual organizations;
-- 5.1 The structural component: towards parity and new forms;
-- 5.2 Policy outputs: towards marketing and public relations;
-- 6 Environments and organizational change;
-- 6.1 Associations in the dairy sector after OBI: towards the COW model;
-- 6.2 Perception: the professional staff and organizational decision-making.
-- 6.3 Embeddedness: organizational activity in a given environment
-- 6.4 Legitimacy: global and local trends;
-- Conclusion;
-- Appendix: English-language questionnaire;
-- Notes;
-- Bibliography;
-- Index.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/60589
ISBN: 9780415611350; 9780203806050
