Kehittyykö Euroopan yhteisöön eurokorporatismia?

Authors

• Juha Eskelinen

Abstract

After the Second World War, neocorporative interest representation systems have developed in a number of Western European countries. The European Community displays few neocorporative features. There are many reasons for this situation. On the level of Western Europe as a whole, the interests of interest groups are much more complex in their segmentation than on the national level. The organizing of interests on the international level is more expensive than on the national level. Market integration reduces the significance of national corporative arenas. The present political power relations of the European Community are more favourable to the interests of entrepreneurs and capital owners than those of wage earners.