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Book presentation. Organized Business Interests in Changing Environments. The Complexity of Adaptation. Jürgen R. Grote, Achim Lang and Volker Schneider (eds.) Palgrave Macmillan, November 2008. The small world of modern interest group research 1980-2008.
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Book presentation Organized Business Interests in Changing Environments. The Complexity of Adaptation. Jürgen R. Grote, Achim Lang and Volker Schneider (eds.) Palgrave Macmillan, November 2008
Traits of research & analytical focus 1975 - 80 1980 - 90 1990 - present > mid-1970s structure and behaviour of groups and interest systems OBI pluralist perspective neo-corporatist perspective state-society relations,group-state interactions, political incorporationof groups EU - level interestintermediation policy analysis,governance debate
Generations and lineages 1. generation (the „old“ triumvirate): Lehmbruch: University of Konstanz Schmitter: WZB > EUI (Stanford, Chicago, Buenos Aires, Lausanne, etc.) Streeck: WZB > EUI > MPI (Wisconsin-Madison) 2. generation: Grote: EUI > MZES > EUI > University of Konstanz Schneider: EUI > MPI > University of Konstanz 3. generation: Lang: University of Konstanz Wagemann: University of Konstanz > MPI > EUI Wonka: University of Konstanz > MZES EUI: European University Institute (Florence, Italy) MPI: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Society (Cologne, Germany) MZES: Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (Mannheim, Germany) WZB: Science Centre (Berlin, Germany)
Authors 1980-2008 (ordered by institutional affiliation) Panitch- York/Toronto Eising- Hagen/Bochum Milan- Regini- Regalia- Lanzalaco Richardson - Essex & Oxford Knoke- Minnesota Van Waarden- Utrecht Cawson- Sussex Ontario- Coleman- Jacek Ronit- Kopenhagen Prague - Mansfeldova- Potucek Vienna- Traxler- Falkner- Marin Berger- MIT Warwick- Grant- Crouch Kriesi- Zurich Aberdeen- Greenwood- Jordan
Why are German research institutes so centrally positioned in research on organized interests? ... until recently: • organized capitalism • coordinated market economy • neo-corporatist forms of policy-making ... and today? • disorganized capitalism? (Offe) • the end of organized capitalism? (Lash/ Urry) • full deregulation of historically entrenched institutions? ... but tomorrow? • back to (appropriately modified and adapted) forms of organized capitalism?