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Attending to the General Interest: New Mechanisms for Mediating between the Individual, Collective and General Interest in Québec
Author(s) -
Bernier Luc,
Bouchard Marie,
Lévesque Benoît
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
annals of public and cooperative economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.526
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1467-8292
pISSN - 1370-4788
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8292.00226
Subject(s) - general interest , solidarity , corporate governance , general partnership , context (archaeology) , political science , state (computer science) , positive economics , economics , epistemology , politics , management , geography , law , computer science , philosophy , archaeology , contemporary philosophy , algorithm
We develop an approach to studying new business governance models and we illustrate how these models take the general interest into account. We outline the main prevailing trends, in the context of the Québec model of development, and discuss the new conceptions of the state and of its role in governance. As a result of this, organizations and institutions are playing a new role in the pursuit of the general interest, which we examine using the ‘Solidarity Fund’ of the Fédération des travailleurs et travailleuses du Québec (FTQ). We suggest that a partnership‐based governance model may help support the emergence of a new mixed economy that weds the general interest with individual and collective interests in an original way.