Organizing Interests By Interest Organizations

Abstract

Are there institutional forms of interest organization most conducive to cooperative labor relations, collective conflict regulation, and economic performance? What elements of association infrastructure make for more effective economic systems and less social disintegration than has been experienced in advanced industrial societies for over a decade? In focusing on intermediary interest associations, recent debates touch on crises of developed capitalism and liberal pluralism theory. Analyzing interest organization may be more illuminating if we understand those contexts that make organizing interests a problem at all.