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Corporate Pluralism Revisited: Where is the Theory?
Author(s) -
Heisler Martin O.
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
scandinavian political studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.65
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9477
pISSN - 0080-6757
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9477.1979.tb00223.x
Subject(s) - pluralism (philosophy) , optimism , democracy , positive economics , political science , epistemology , sociology , social science , economics , law , philosophy , politics
The article assesses the prospects for building a comprehensive theoretical framework for explaining modern democracy with the aid of the concept of corporate pluralism. Three district patterns in the literature are detected and reviewed. None seems entirely satisfactory, though there are grounds for optimism as regards future progress.