Organizing Interests in Western Europe:

The chapters in this volume reconsider fundamental premises about state and society in advanced capitalist countries. That social scientists in different disciplines of varying methodological and political persuasions should have found it useful to collaborate in such an undertaking is testimony to the profound social, economic and political shocks experienced by all advanced capitalist nations since to late 1960s. The energy crisis, the end of rapid economic growth, inflation, high unemployment and rising social conflict challenge conventional conceptions about the functioning of industrial societies and their future course. Social science theories have been unable to illuminate these realities.

Preface
Introduction
The determinants of interest group formation
'Fictitious bonds " of wealth and law'
Class formation, interest articulation and public policy
Regime and interest representation
Local corporatism
The functioning of interest groups
The attribution of public status to interest groups
German interest group alliances in war and inflation, 1914-1923
Corporatism and official hegemony
The internal politics of trade unions
State, society and representation: the changing relationship
Interests and parties in pluralism
Interest intermediation and regime governability in contemporary Western Europe and North America
May 1968 and the Hot Autumn of 1969
A century of politics and interests in Spain
Index
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Organizing Interests in Western Europe: Pluralism, Corporatism, and the Transformation of Politics

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