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corporatismBelief that the state in capitalist democracies should intervene to a large extent in the economy to ensure social harmony. In Austria, for example, corporatism results in political decisions often being taken after discussions between chambers of commerce, trade unions, and the government. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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There, the big business that grew in the wake of perestroika and the "liberalization" of the Yeltsin years was not the entrepreneurship that marks the small businessmen of the Siberian frontier, but a predatory corporatism. Pressures of global depression, heightened inter-imperial competition and total war mixed not only with techniques of mass social mobilization, faith in social engineering, and social corporatism, but also, fatally, with essentialist, hierarchical understandings of race, nation, gender and class. He finds that elections had remade the urban political world into one in which ideological programs, not old practices of corporatism and patron-client relations, were the most effective methods for mobilizing ordinary voters, and in which public spaces were filled with tumult and shouting. |
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