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French Interest Group Politics: Pluralist or Neocorporatist?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

Frank L. Wilson
Frank L. Wilson*
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Purdue University
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Abstract

Although France is not among those countries most frequently cited as examples of the trend toward corporatism, some observers have seen evidence of corporatist patterns of interest group-government contacts. Others assert that French groups have a distinctive protest form of action, and still others see France as a preserve of traditional pluralism. Interviews with 99 French interest group leaders in 1979 suggest that the pluralist model most accurately describes the actions reported by these leaders. Although the group leaders described some corporatist activities, such as participation in statutory commissions, and indicated a willingness to engage in protest, the most common actions were those more consistent with pluralism: personal contacts with government officials and lobbying. These activities were also the forms judged to be most effective in influencing policy, although the overall impression was of a political system in which organized interests had relatively limited impact.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 77 , Issue 4 , December 1983 , pp. 895 - 910
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1983

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