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Federations of Co‐Operatives and Organized Interests in Agriculture. An analysis of the Spanish Experience
Author(s) -
MoyanoEstrada Eduardo,
Entrena Francisco,
Serrano del Rosal Rafael
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
sociologia ruralis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.005
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1467-9523
pISSN - 0038-0199
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9523.00180
Subject(s) - unitary state , representation (politics) , ideology , agriculture , panorama , process (computing) , economic system , political science , business , political economy , sociology , economics , politics , law , geography , computer science , archaeology , computer vision , operating system
This article considers federations of agricultural co‐operatives as claim‐oriented associations, characterized by integral goals, collective goods and ideological discourse. However, they differ from other claim‐oriented associations, such as farmers' unions, in their tendency toward unitary models for the representation of the interests of agricultural co‐operatives. The authors stress the importance of institutional factors in explaining this panorama. The Spanish case is used as an example of the influence of institutional factors on the process of the establishment of federations of agricultural co‐operatives. In particular, it focuses on decision‐making institutions, at the regional, national and European level, which have oriented such a process toward unitary models of representation.