Corporatism

Corporatism is about how a political system organizes the representation of different economic interests. Best definition of corporatism is provided by Schmitter (1974): 

"Corporatism can be defined as a system of interest representation in which the constituent units are organized into a limited number of singular, compulsory, noncompetitive, hierarchically ordered and functionally differentiated categories, recognized or licensed (if not created) by the state and granted a deliberate representational monopoly within their respective categories in exchange for observing certain controls on their selection of leaders and articulation of demands and supports."

Theory/Classics:

• Schmitter, Philippe C. 1974. “Still the Century of Corporatism?” The Review of politics 36(1): 85–131.

• Collier, Ruth Berins, and David Collier. 1979. “Inducements versus Constraints: Disaggregating ‘Corporatism.’” American Political Science Review 73(4): 967–86.

• Molina, Oscar, and Martin Rhodes. 2002. “Corporatism: The Past, Present, and Future of a Concept.” Annual Review of Political Science 5(1): 305–31. 

• Wiarda, Howard J. 2016. Corporatism and Comparative Politics: The Other Great" Ism". Routledge. 

Europe

• Royo, S. 2002. “‘A New Century of Corporatism?’ Corporatism in Spain and Portugal.” West European Politics 25(3): 77–104. 

• Baker, David. 2006. “The Political Economy of Fascism: Myth or Reality, or Myth and Reality?” New Political Economy 11(2): 227–50. 

• Berger, Suzanne, and Joint Committee on Western Europe. 1981. Organizing Interests in Western Europe: Pluralism, Corporatism, and the Transformation of Politics. Cambridge University Press.

• Black, Antony. 2017. Guild and State: European Political Thought from the Twelfth Century to the Present. Routledge. 

• Moschonas, Gerassimos. 2016. In the Name of Social Democracy: The Great Transformation, 1945 to the Present. Verso Books.

• Streeck, Wolfgang, and Philippe C. Schmttter. 1991. “From National Corporatism to Transnational Pluralism: Organized Interests in the Single European Market.” Politics & Society 19(2): 133–64. 

Middle East

• Bianchi, Robert. 1989. Unruly Corporatism: Associational Life in Twentieth-Century Egypt. Oxford University Press.

• Posusney, Marsha Pripstein. 1997. Labor and the State in Egypt: Workers, Unions, and Economic Restructuring. Columbia University Press. 

• Chekir, Hamouda, and Ishac Diwan. 2014. “Crony Capitalism in Egypt.” Journal of Globalization and Development 5(2). 

• Haddad, Bassam S. A. 2020. Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience. Stanford University Press. 

• Hinnebusch, Raymond A. 1989. Peasant And Bureaucracy In Ba`thist Syria: The Political Economy Of Rural Development. Avalon Publishing.

Latin America

• Malloy, James. 2010. Authoritarianism and Corporatism in Latin America. University of Pittsburgh Press.

• Schneider, Ben Ross. 2004. Business Politics and the State in Twentieth-Century Latin America. Cambridge University Press. 

East Asia

• Popkin, Samuel L. 1976. “Corporatism and Colonialism: The Political Economy of Rural Change in Vietnam.” Comparative Politics 8(3): 431–64.

• Unger, Jonathan, and Anita Chan. 1995. “China, Corporatism, and the East Asian Model.” The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs 33: 29–53. 

• Rosser Jr, J. Barkley, and Marina V. Rosser. 2018. Comparative Economics in a Transforming World Economy. MIT Press. [general]