Book Review: Corporatism and Accountability: Organised Interests in British Public Life
| Author | Grant Jordan |
| Published date | 01 March 1991 |
| Date | 01 March 1991 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1177/014473949101100107 |
| Subject Matter | Book Reviews |
Book
Reviews
scope
for
improvement,
perhaps
in
a
future
edition.
The
first
two
chapters,
for
example,
lack
a
little
direction
and
contain,
respectively,
over-long
and
generalised
sections
on
pressure
groups
and
on
pressure
groups
(again)
and
local
government
finance.
There
is
sometimes
repetition,
though
the
author
generally
succeeds
in
organising
his
material
so
as
to
accommodate
the
inevitable
complexity
caused
by
the
piecemeal
and
fragmented
pattern
of
developments
in
the
leisure
industry
itself.
As
far
as
the
bibliography
is
concerned,
I
would
have
preferred
to
see
more
explicit
integration
of
references
with
the
text.
Finally,
the
volume
is
marred
by
a
monotony
of
mistakes
of
the
proof-
reading
sort.
Virtually
every
page
offends
in
this
respect
-I
marked
over
140
in
193
pages
of
text
-
and
some
are
particularly
unfortunate:
'Maude'
Report,
'Lord
Redcliffe-Maude',
'Boar
War',
'Ordinance
Survey'
and
so
on.
Even
so,
despite
these
amiable
grumbles,
Dr
Adams
has
produced
a
book
which
meets
a
real
need.
It
will
be
of
great
value
to
its
expected
readers,
those
students
of
leisure
studies
who
need
to
understand
the
crucial
role
of
government
in
their
specialist
area.
Sensibly
priced,
the
book
represents
good
value-for-money.
Department
of
Economics
and
Government,
Newcastle
upon
Tyne
Polytechnic
KEN
HARROP
Corporatism
and
Accountability:
Organised
Interesta
in
British
Public
Life
by
COLIN
CROUCH
AND
RONALD
DORE
(eds).
(Oxford,
Clarendon
Press,
1990,
pp.294,
£30.00.)
This
book
records
the
work
into
corporatism
supported
by
the
SSRC
in
the
early
1980s.
The
editors
assert
that
corporatism
of
that
vintage
was
'imprecisely
conceived
and
ridden
with
posturing'.
They
fail
to
then
give
a
convincing
argument
as
to
why
this
required
a £250,000
research
programme.
In
the
opening
chapter
the
editors
ask
'Whatever
Happened
to
Corporatism'?
They
start
with
the
famous
Schmitter
version
of
the
concept
-
the
one
that
goes
on
about
a
limited
number
of
singular,
compulsory,
non-competitive,
hierarchically
ordered
and
functionally
differentiated
categories,
recognised
or
licensed
(if
not
created)
by
the
state...
They
claim
that
this
formulation
had
the
disadvantage
of
not
leaving
much
room
for
more
or
less
qualifications.
Corporatism
in
this
definition,
they
imply,
exists
or
it
doesn't.
Since
they
also
argue
that
such
a
precise
formulation
rules
out
much
chance
of
it
being
found,
then
Schmitter
is
a
false
trail.
However,
this
seems
a
poor
justification
for
junking
the
founding
father.
Though
he
intended
it
as
a
snappy
descriptive
label
for
empirically
observed
societies
rsther
than
as
an
ideal
type,
it
nonetheless
stands
as
such.
Without
saying
that
Norway
is
corporatist,
a
contrast
with
(say)
the
56
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