Democratic governance and the institutionalization of interest group representation

Jan Beyers and William Maloney

Chapter 11 in Handbook of Comparative Political Institutions, 2024, pp 174-192 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter links interest group politics with the role of other intermediary institutions in the broader representational field, the functioning of government and interest groups’ roots in society. The main thrust of our argument is that a combined analysis of how groups are rooted in society and how they seek to influence governance is needed in order to characterize and qualify the contribution of groups to democratic politics. In juxtaposing these two dimensions we identify four classic typologies of interest representation that correspond with different patterns of state-society relations: corporatism, pluralism, elite pluralism and statism. Finally, we argue that in order to understand the contribution of interest groups to democratic governance, political science needs comparative and interdisciplinary projects that bridge interest group research with that on party politics, public opinion, public policy and political economy.

Keywords: Politics; and; Public; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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