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

2. 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

3. The ideal Community, the ideal Market, the ideal State

4. Interdependencies/ overlaps between community, market and state

6. The (re-) discovery of a forth societal order

7. 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

8. Private Interest Governments (PIGs)

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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