Social:Liberal corporatism
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Liberal corporatism is an economic-democratic and liberal-socialist application of corporatism, which seeks workers' election of management and minimal state intervention in sector bargaining over economic policy.[1] However, some forms of liberal corporatism exhibit non-socialist and nationalist-liberal characteristics.[2][3] 'Liberal corporatism' is often in conflict with 'liberal pluralism',[clarification needed] which opposes granting power to organised interest groups.[1]
English liberal socialist philosopher John Stuart Mill supported corporatism as needing to predominate in society to create equality for labourers and give them a voice in management through democratic economic rights.[4] Unlike a number of other forms of corporatism, liberal corporatism does not reject markets or individualism, but rather believes that a business is a social institution that requires a recognition of the needs of its members.[5] This liberal corporatist ethic was similar to Taylorism but called for democratisation of the firm and election of management.[5]
Liberal corporatism was an influential component of the progressivism in the United States that has been referred to as "interest group liberalism".[6] Labour leaders' and progressives' advocacy of liberal corporatism is believed to have been influenced in reaction to the rise of syndicalism and particularly anarcho-syndicalism at the time in Europe.[6] Liberal corporatism is commonly supported by proponents in Austria, the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden.[1]
See also
- Corporatism
- Economic democracy
- Codetermination
- Sectoral bargaining
- Worker cooperative
- Workplace democracy
- German State Party, a national-liberal and corporatist political party in the Weimar Republic
- Liberal socialism
- Market socialism
- Welfare capitalism
- Philosophy:Political particularism – Ability of policymakers to further their careers by catering to narrow interests
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Frank Bealey, Richard A. Chapman, Michael Sheehan. Elements in political science. Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press, 1999. P36. ISBN 0748611096
- ↑ Larry Eugene Jones (1988). German Liberalism and the Dissolution of the Weimar Party System, 1918-1933. University of North Carolina Press. pp. 410-415.
- ↑ Peter Fritzsche (1990). Rehearsals for Fascism: Populism and Political Mobilization in Weimar Germany. Oxford University Press. p. 197.
- ↑ Gregg, Samuel. The commercial society: foundations and challenges in a global age. Lanham, USA; Plymouth, UK: Lexington Books, 2007. Pp. 109. ISBN 073911994X
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Waring, Stephen P. Taylorism Transformed: Scientific Management Theory Since 1945. University of North Carolina Press, 1994. Pp. 193. ISBN 0807844691
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Wiarda, Howard J. Corporatism and comparative politics. M.E. Sharpe, 1996. Pp. 134. ISBN 156324716X
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