The Corporatist Sisyphus: Past, Present and Future

P.C. Schmitter and J.R. Grote

Working Papers from European Institute - Political and Social Sciences

Abstract: This article argues that the Corporatist Sisyphus is headed back up the hill, goaded as before by an architectonic national state. Moreover, he is just about on time. If previous speculation about a twenty to twenty-five year cycle was correct and if one traces their last downturn to the First Oil Shock of 1973, then corporatist practices should have bottomed out ca. 1985-8 and will be hitting their peak sometime after 1998-9 -- more or less at the very moment that monetary unification is (supposed) to occur!

Keywords: CORPORATISM; ECONOMIC GROWTH (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 E37 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 45 pages
Date: 1997
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