“Corporatism, Pluralism and European Integration: The Impact on National Interest Intermediation”

Falkner, Gerda. (1999) “Corporatism, Pluralism and European Integration: The Impact on National Interest Intermediation” . In European Union Studies Association (EUSA) > Biennial Conference > 1999 (6th), June 2-5, 1999, Pittsburgh, PA.

Abstract

Does the EU represent transnational pluralism that will trickle down the European multi-level system? Or is it a ‘statist pluralist’ model which nevertheless impinges most badly on, first statist national polities and, second, corporatist ones? Or does the EU herald a completely new form of governance, i.e., a problem-solving style of co-operation between public and private actors that will succeed hierarchy between public and private actors as well as competition between interest groups, in both the supranational and the national spheres?