Does the American Dairy Industry Fit the Meso-Corporatist Model?
- 1 March 1990
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Political Studies
- Vol. 38 (1) , 72-82
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9248.1990.tb00570.x
Abstract
Corporatism having become a less useful label for describing entire political systems, corporatist scholars have emphasized the importance of meso-level corporatism, using dairying as the classic example. Analysis of the American dairy industry does not support the claim that there is ‘no corporatism in the United States’ but it suggests why meso-corporatist enclaves in a macro-pluralist system are liable to be ephemeral. What sets the American dairy industry apart from its European and Canadian counterparts is that the meso-corporatist institutional arrangements were undermined by the emergence of large regional cooperatives in the 1960s and as a result present dairy policy-making has reverted once more to a pluralist paradigm.Keywords
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