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Devolution and Corporatism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

H. M. Drucker
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PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATWE DEMOCRACY IS ABOUT THE relationship of individuals to the state. It commonly invokes mechanistic metaphors about the relationship between these individuals and their governments. Corporatism is about the relationship of certain, apparently relationship indispensable, functional groups to each other in the society which, collectively , they comprise. It is commonly referred to in organic metaphors, specifically it holds that each function is organically related to each other function and that each is irreplaceable. None can be dispensed with and each can do its appointed task provided all others do theirs.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 12 , Issue 2 , 01 April 1977 , pp. 178 - 193
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1977

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19 Ibid.

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21 For the information in this paragraph I am indebted to Gordon Brown for allowing me to see his unpublished paper on devolution and the Labour Party.