Breakdown and Change of Private Interest Governments.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The theoretical framework -- 1.1 Interest intermediation between pluralism and corporatism -- 1.2 The 'discovery' of the associability of business interests -- 1.3 The 'discovery' of economic sectors as categories of analysis and the private interest government in the dairy sector -- 1.4 Organizational properties as analytical units -- 1.5 Population ecology and new institutionalist approaches to the study of interest groups -- 2 Methodology and research techniques -- 2.1 Multi-method approaches in comparative case studies -- 2.2 Case selection -- 2.3 Data collection techniques -- 3 From government to governance: organizational communities -- 3.1 The situation of the dairy industry in four countries -- 3.2 Associational sectoral governance in the early 1980s -- 3.3 Changes in associational sectoral governance -- 3.4 Liechtenstein: a counter-case to Switzerland -- 3.5 Varieties of change -- 4 From stability to enduring transformation: organizational populations -- 4.1 The expansion of the Swiss associational system -- 4.2 The concentration of the British associational system -- 4.3 Stabilization of the German associational system -- 4.4 The transformation of the Austrian associational system -- 4.5 Diverging and converging paths of change -- 4.6 Organizational populations and organizations -- 5 From influence to membership: individual organizations -- 5.1 The structural component: towards parity and new forms -- 5.2 Policy outputs: towards marketing and public relations -- 6 Environments and organizational change -- 6.1 Associations in the dairy sector after OBI: towards the COW model -- 6.2 Perception: the professional staff and organizational decision-making.

6.3 Embeddedness: organizational activity in a given environment -- 6.4 Legitimacy: global and local trends -- Conclusion -- Appendix: English-language questionnaire -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Examines how Private Interest Governments have changed as a form of public sector economic regulation.

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