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Some Problems of Method and Operational Techniques in the Study of Corporatism *
Author(s) -
POOLE MICHAEL
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
european journal of political research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.267
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1475-6765
pISSN - 0304-4130
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-6765.1982.tb00021.x
Subject(s) - corporatism , control (management) , economics , order (exchange) , mercantilism , capital (architecture) , economic system , macroeconomics , public economics , political science , market economy , finance , management , archaeology , politics , law , history
This contribution is concerned with examining the appropriate methods for measuring corporatism in actual research designs. After a review of the main theoretical approaches to this question. a series of measures are derived from the paradigm of Winkler (1977) encompassing unity. order, nationalism and success and, more specifically the operating principles of co‐operation. discipline. collectivity and mobilization. Research data from a study of managers in the United Kingdom are then presented and, on the basis of factor analysis, the original categories are reformulated in terms of control over markets. labour. international economic relationships and capital. and the operating principles of prices and incomes control. discipline, neo‐mercantilism and control of investment strategy and economic resource location. More generally, too, in this area of study. a very close relationship between theoretical perspective and the selection of particular research methods is identified.