Studying social partners through the lens of interest groups approach: limits and opportunities
(2015) ECPR Summer School on interest groups politics — Location: Hambourg (20.July.2015)
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- Are social partners a (atypical) type of interest groups? To quote the Belgian Minister of Economy and Employment: "Social partners are not interest groups, their interest goes further than their own personal interest". In academic work as well, social partners seem most of the time to be treated distinctively from other interest groups, because of their particular features regarding State-society relations. For example, according to Visser (1998: 13) "the most interesting property of social concertation lies in the possibility that interest groups redefine the content of their self-interested strategies in a 'public-regarding way' ". This paper's purpose is to identify what are the differences and similarities between social partners and interest groups in order to determine to what extent it is possible to study social partners through the lens of interest groups and if such approach might be relevant. To foster this reflection, both literature on professional relations and literature on interest groups politics are mobilized.
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Guisset, A. (2015). Studying social partners through the lens of interest groups approach: limits and opportunities. ECPR Summer School on interest groups politics, Hambourg. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/189064