Breakdown and change of private interest governments / / laudius Wagemann

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464287303321
• Autore: Wagemann Claudius.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-138-37701-5; 0-203-80605-0; 1-136-65261-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (281 p.)
• Collana: Routledge/Warwick Studies in Globalisation ; ; 23
• Disciplina: 338.9
• Soggetti: Industrial policy; Pressure groups - Economic aspects; Corporate state; Economic policy; Public goods; Globalization - Economic aspects; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 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 studies2.2 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 system4.4 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 environment6.4 Legitimacy: global and local trends; Conclusion; Appendix: English-language questionnaire; Notes; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 insights in changes which