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Managing Political and Societal Conflict in Democracies: Do Consensus and Corporatism Matter?

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  • Keman, Hans
  • Pennings, Paul

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In their Note ‘Corporatism and Consensus Democracy in Eighteen Countries’ (this Journal, 21 (1991), 235–46) Arend Lijphart and Markus Crepaz sought to analyse the conceptual and theoretical linkages between corporatism and consensus democracy. Their aim was not only to investigate whether the concepts were linked to each other, but also to examine to what extent they overlapped. The authors claim that corporatism is part and parcel of consensual types of democracy (p. 235). If corporatism could be included as a dimension of consensual democracy the contrasts between Westminster and consensual types of democracy would be empirically enhanced and would be more comprehensive. Although this is an interesting line of thought, we think that there are a number of conceptual and methodological flaws in the elaboration of this idea that should be discussed in more detail, because they may very well cast some doubt on the degree to which corporatism is indeed ‘part and parcel’ of consensual politics. In this Comment we shall elaborate this argument and also suggest some ways in which the thrust of Lijphart and Crepaz's theoretical arguments can be upheld and their empirical analysis improved.

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  • Keman, Hans & Pennings, Paul, 1995. "Managing Political and Societal Conflict in Democracies: Do Consensus and Corporatism Matter?," British Journal of Political Science, Cambridge University Press, vol. 25(2), pages 271-281, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:bjposi:v:25:y:1995:i:02:p:271-281_00
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