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Socio-Economic Review Advance Access published online on October 24, 2005
Socio-Economic Review, doi:10.1093/SER/mwj031
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Civil society meets the state: towards associational democracy?*

Lucio Baccaro 1*

1 International Institute for Labour Studies, 4, route des Morillons, CH-1211 Geneva 22, Switzerland

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Lucio Baccaro, E-mail: baccaro{at}ilo.org


  Abstract

This article discusses the ‘associational democratic’ model of relationship between state and civil society organizations, which recommends devolution of as many regulatory functions as possible to local groups and associations with detailed knowledge of problems and possible solutions, extensive monitoring capacities and the potential to deliberate about generalizable as opposed to purely sectional interests. The goal is to introduce greater doses of realism in a model that has, so far, mostly been confined to abstract, normative discussions. The article does so by discussing two themes in particular: the link between associational democracy and neo-corporatism, and the relationship between deliberation--a crucial element in the normative model--and bargaining.

Keywords: associations; bureaucracy; NGOs.
*Many thanks to participants in seminars at the Max-Planck-Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung di Colonia and the Institute for Work and Employment Research at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, as well as Luigi Bobbio, Christiane Kuptsch, Richard Locke, Chuck Sabel, Fritz Scharpf and Wolfgang Streeck for comments on previous versions of the paper.
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