Is Neo-corporatist model fading away

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Theories of Neo-corporatism
In 1970s, the term Neo-corporatist had been formed since Manoilesco’s theory of the single-party state seemed hardly to analyze interest group field, which was at most applicable to the older authoritarian or fascistic corporatism (Von Beyme, 1983). Since then, corporatism has attracted academic interest and consequently greater efforts were endowed to attempt more precise concept and theories (Molina & Rhodes, 2002). Just as Pallesen (2006) states that “The late 1970s and 1980s were the golden age of neo-corporatism in the literature and in policy making (Schmitter 1974; 1979)”.

Based on Wilson (1983), neo-corporatism has been defined as “interest representation” which Schmitter prefers as “interest intermediation”, and “policy-making process” which Lehmbruc stipulates as an institutionalized pattern of policy formation in his liberal corporatism view. While Baccaro (2003) believes that in the concept of neo-corporatism the policy making process theory should be alive, but the interest representation view should be obsolete since the policy concertation can be also based on a non-corporatist structure with the interest representation system, which was concluded from Irish and Italian experience both of which are weak corporatist countries. In addition to the interest representation and policy making process research, Molina and Rhodes (2002) identify a second place in literature where social scientist focused on systematic effects of corporatist institutions. The first method has probed the various patterns of corporatism across different states, attempted to distinct corporatism from pluralism while the second path focused on the relations between systematic characteristics and social economic outc...

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...orporatism are all based on macro-level, whereas neo-corporatist in France is not as typical as these Scandinavia countries, it’s mainly based on meso-level. And it is well-know that the traditional or societal corporatist model in France is inapplicable to industrial or economic issues (Underhill, 1988). The dynamic competition between the interest groups led to the fallacy of neo-corporation in French agriculture. Nevertheless, sector corporatism fallacy is not in French agriculture but also in its environment policy and traditional textile and closing industry, which illustrates difficulties of solutions from existing contradictory patterns of interest representations that hampered reform, thus France provide an awkward example of neo-corporatism because of their internal conflicts between trade unions and the inability of authority over labors (Szarka, 2000).

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