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Corporatism – without the prefix “neo” – as a political ideology is originally related to Catholic political thinking as a way to moderate the negative consequences of capitalism by creating political positions for representatives from society’s different economic interests. During the 1920s–1940s, it became associated with Fascist thinking and practice. The “neo” prefix is meant to distinguish present-day corporatism from its prior relation to Fascism. Neo-corporatism comes with several definitions. Part of the literature emphasizes neo-corporatism as a way of organizing market economies in which representatives for business and trade unions are integrated with the state and coordinate economic issues such as inflation, unemployment, labor market regulation, and vocational training. Another strand of the literature is more occupied with the way organized interests are integrated into the political and administrative decision-making process in order to create policies that...
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Christiansen, P.M. (2020). Corporatism (and Neo-corporatism). In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Interest Groups, Lobbying and Public Affairs . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13895-0_36-1
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