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Cardoso report on the UN and civil society: functionalism, global corporatism, or global democracy? / Willetts, Peter

Willetts, Peter	Journal Article
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2006.

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The Report of the Panel of Eminent Persons on United Nations-Civil Society Relations was published in June 2004. It strongly endorsed the case for wider participation of civil society in all aspects of the UN's work, both at the headquarters and at the country level. However, the panel members displayed little understanding of the existing NGO consultative arrangements. Many of its recommendations were impolitic or impractical. The report was intellectually incoherent because it embodied three competing theoretical frameworks: functionalism, neocorporatism, and democratic pluralism. The functionalist emphasis on expertise and the neocorporatist emphasis on engaging stakeholders cannot offer criteria for participation on an all-embracing democratic basis. Reform is needed to provide facilities and resources to enhance participation by marginalized groups.

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Civil Society ; NGOs ; Non-governmental Organisations ; Cardoso Report ; Functionalism ; Neocorporatism ;
United Nations

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Down but not out: union resurgence and segmented neocorporatism in Argentina (2003-2007) / Etchemendy, Sebastián; Collier, Ruth Berins

Etchemendy, Sebastián	Journal Article
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2007.

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The shift from state-led import-substitution industrialization to more market-oriented economic models often has the result of shrinking and demobilizing the labor movement. Yet, evidence from Argentina suggests that a subsequent resurgence of even a downsized labor movement may occur and furthermore that a type of "segmented neocorporatism" may be established in the new economic context. We argue that the establishment of this new form of interest intermediation is driven by economic and political factors that are both immediate and longer term. In addition to the short-term condition of the labor market and the political strategy of the government in power, of longer-term importance are structural and institutional conditions that derive from the earlier process of market reform, specifically the nature of sectoral shifts in the economy and the degree of labor law deregulation affecting the "associational power" of unions.

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Argentina ; Neocorporatism ; Labor Unions

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