num_pages: 369
description: The widespread development of neocorporatism--a process in which certain interest groups derive power from their privileged relationship with the state and formal participation in public policy-making rather than through traditional lobbying or pressure tactics--has recently attractedconsiderable scholarly attention. This penetrating study focuses on the emergence of the most powerful agricultural union (FNSEA) as a force in French politics, the trends toward corporatization and decorporatization of the agricultural sector, and the governmental efforts at reform anddecorporatization in Mitterrand's France. Keeler introduces a new, sector-oriented theoretical framework suitable for analyzing the corporatization process in any democratic polity. The book also offers a general model of the "corporatist imperative" in the agricultural sector of democraticpolities and tests this model with comparative case studies of the United States, Britain, Italy, and West Germany.
language: English
title: The Politics of Neocorporatism in France: Farmers, the State, and Agricultural Policy-making in the Fifth Republic
titlecomplete: The Politics of Neocorporatism in France: Farmers, the State, and Agricultural Policy-making in the Fifth Republic
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Oxford University Press