Organized Interests and Interest Intermediation – East and West Juergen Grote Fall 2007 Wednesdays 2.15 – 5.15 pm Session 17 October Presentation: PIGs

Associative order (PIG) Communities Markets States Associative order (PIG) Coordination Spontaneous solidarity Dispersed competition Hierarchical control Intra/ inter-organizational concertation Main actors Families Firms/ parties Bureaucratic agencies Associations, movements Entry conditions Ascriptive member status Abiltiy to pay, eligibility to vote Legal authorization Capacity to disrupt and compromise Exchange medium Esteem Money/ votes Coercion Mutual recognition Exchange product Compacts Contracts/ political positions Regulation Pacts Resources Trust, respect Pol. and econ. entrepreneurship Legitimate control Guaranteed access Motives of actors Esteem of followers Profit/ electoral victory Careers, bureaucratic stability Organizational development Cleavages Natives vs. foreigners Sellers vs. buyers, parties vs. voters Rulers vs. ruled Members vs. leaders vs. state interlocutors Pay-offs Mutual affection, collective identity Material prosperity, citizen accountability (External) security Social peace

The ideal Community, the ideal Market, the ideal State

Interdependencies/ overlaps between community, market and state

The (re-) discovery of a forth societal order

Associative order (PIG) Communities Markets States Associative order (PIG) Coordination Spontaneous solidarity Dispersed competition Hierarchical control Intra/ inter-organizational concertation Main actors Families Firms/ parties Bureaucratic agencies Associations, movements Entry conditions Ascriptive member status Abiltiy to pay, eligibility to vote Legal authorization Capacity to disrupt and compromise Exchange medium Esteem Money/ votes Coercion Mutual recognition Exchange product Compacts Contracts/ political positions Regulation Pacts Resources Trust, respect Pol. and econ. entrepreneurship Legitimate control Guaranteed access Motives of actors Esteem of followers Profit/ electoral victory Careers, bureaucratic stability Organizational development Cleavages Natives vs. foreigners Sellers vs. buyers, parties vs. voters Rulers vs. ruled Members vs. leaders vs. state interlocutors Pay-offs Mutual affection, collective identity Material prosperity, citizen accountability (External) security Social peace

Private Interest Governments (PIGs)

An alternative view on the problem in question: Systems of interest (and of information) intermediation (Rucht 1993) environment A (private sphere) environment B (non-public polity) public space systems of organized interest intermediation political parties interest associations citizens, groups, social milieus social movements politico-administrative system systems of information intermediation mass media

OBI In an encompassing international research project (The Organization of Business Interests – OBI) whose results have been produced over the period of an entire decade, project participants tried to address the questions of: what are the major organizational properties of business associations how business associations are involved in their wider environment and what are the major challenges, influences and constraints under which they are operating The most well-known scheme of that project has been called the four logics of organized collective action

Four logics of organized collective action become a GOVERNMENT become a FIRM Logic of efficient implementation selective goods services monopoly goods compliance organizational_ properties Logic of membership Logic of influence solidaristic goods participation public goods representation become a MOVEMENT Logic of goal attainment become a CLUB