...often quoted definition, a corporatist system of interest-group intermediation is seen as involving 'a limited number of singular, compulsory, non-competitive,...hierarchically ordered and functionally differentiated groups, recognised (if not created1 by the state and granted a deliberate representational monopoly...

...concept in political science. The most commonly adopted definition is: Corporatism can be defined as a system of interest representation in which the constituent...functionally differentiated categories, recognized or licensed (if not created) by the state and granted a deliberate representational monopoly within their...

...within their respective categories. Corporatism can be defined as a system of interest intermediation in which the constituent units are organized into...functionally differentiated categories recognized or licensed (if not created) by the state and granted a deliberate representational monopoly within the...

...of industrial relations. As elucidated by the political scientist Philippe Schmitter, corporatism is a system of interest representation in which the constituent...functionally differentiated categories, recognized or licensed (if not created) by the state and granted a deliberate representational monopoly within their...

...definition stressed the "intermediation" function that groups play in a societal corporatist system in which "the constituent units are organized into...ordered and functionally differentiated categories" (Schmitter, 1979: 13). Corporatism is most fully developed in European liberal democracies, where peak...

...themselves to certain constraints imposed by the state. 17 Phillippe Schmitter stresses the fact that the constituent units are organized into a limited number of singular, compulsory, non-competitive, hierarchi13 See, R. Salisbury, ibid. 14 See too, JP Balkenende, Overheidsregelgeving en maatschappelijke...

...corporatism as an ideal-typical response to these facts of modern political life. Pluralism can be defined as a system of interest representation in which the constituent units are organized into an unspecified number of multiple, voluntary, competitive, nonhierarchically ordered and self-determined...

...also charged by government with carrying it out (Cawson 1982). Schmitter's classic definition is of 'a system of interest representation in which the...ordered and functionally differentiated categories, recognised or licensed (if not created by) the state and granted a deliberate representational monopoly...

...definition of the term has been provided by Schmitter, who states that it consists of: a system of representation in which the constituent units are...functionally differentiated categories, recognized or licensed (if not created) by the state and granted a deliberate representational monopoly within their...

...'Corporatism can he defined as a system of interest representation in which the constituent units are orgamzed into a limited number of singular. compulsory non,competitive....functionally differentiated categories. recognized or licensed iif not createdi by the state and granted a deliberate representational monopoly within their...