Organizations, Classes and the Growth of State Interventionism in Denmark

Abstract

This article deals with the question of the way in which the role of the interest organizations can be understood in a macro sociological and materialistic conceptual framework. The discussion is based on ar gumentation for a need to establish an overall framework of understanding for the interaction between economy and politics. Historical materialism tends towards this but is relatively undeveloped as to the conceptualiza tion concerning the role of interest organizations during the modern inter ventionistic form of state. An attempt will be made to develop such concepts and to apply them to empiric examples concerning relations between the propertied classes and the state during the growth of state interventionism in Denmark in the 1930's.