American Sociological Review 1991
A Comparative Study of Corporatist Development
Abstract
Corporatist institutions are where peak representatives of business and labor negotiate wage and price agreements at a national level. These institutions consist of horizontal relationships between employers and unions on the one hand and vertical relationships between the union confederations and union affiliates on the other. Theories of class politics, the world market, and country size propose explanations of the development of corporatist institutions. Taken together, these theories characterize advanced capitalism in terms of the shared and conflicting interests of class actors and state actors. Robust regression analysis of data on 18 OECD countries shows that corporatist development is positively related to social democratic government and negatively related to country size. The effect of the world market on corporatist development receives only moderate support. These findings suggest that corporatism is more the outcome of parliamentary class conflict than industrial class collaboration.
- DOI
- 10.2307/2096104
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