The Politics of Neocorporatism in France: Farmers, the State, and Agricultural Policy-making in the Fifth Republic

The widespread development of neocorporatism--a process in which certain interest groups derive power from their privileged relationship with the state and formal participation in public policy-making rather than through traditional lobbying or pressure tactics--has recently attracted considerable scholarly attention. This penetrating study focuses on the emergence of the most powerful agricultural union (FNSEA) as a force in French politics, the trends toward corporatization and decorporatization of the agricultural sector, and the governmental efforts at reform and decorporatization in Mitterrand's France. Keeler introduces a new, sector-oriented theoretical framework suitable for analyzing the corporatization process in any democratic polity. The book also offers a general model of the "corporatist imperative" in the agricultural sector of democratic polities and tests this model with comparative case studies of the United States, Britain, Italy, and West Germany.Keeler, John T. is the author of 'The Politics of Neocorporatism in France: Farmers, the State, and Agricultural Policy-making in the Fifth Republic', published 1987 under ISBN 9780195040784 and ISBN 0195040783.