Public committees and corporatism: How does Iceland compare to Scandinavia?
This paper compares the number of corporatist public committees, appointed by central government, in Iceland and Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, Sweden). Its main aim is to shed light on where Iceland stands compared to these countries in term of corporatist practices. Scholars view corporatist public...
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fticelandunivojs:oai:ojs.hi.is:article/2748 2023-05-15T16:42:21+02:00 Public committees and corporatism: How does Iceland compare to Scandinavia? Óskarsdóttir, Stefanía 2018-05-30 application/pdf http://www.irpa.is/article/view/a.2018.14.1.8 https://doi.org/10.13177/irpa.a.2018.14.1.8 eng eng Stjórnsýslustofnun http://www.irpa.is/article/view/a.2018.14.1.8/pdf http://www.irpa.is/article/view/a.2018.14.1.8 doi:10.13177/irpa.a.2018.14.1.8 ##submission.copyrightStatement## Icelandic Review of Politics & Administration; Árg. 14, Nr 1 (2018): Sérhefti um vald og lýðræði á Íslandi; 167-188 Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla; Árg. 14, Nr 1 (2018): Sérhefti um vald og lýðræði á Íslandi; 167-188 1670-679X 1670-6803 Public committees corporatism democracy policy-making info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article 2018 fticelandunivojs https://doi.org/10.13177/irpa.a.2018.14.1.8 2022-09-21T13:39:12Z This paper compares the number of corporatist public committees, appointed by central government, in Iceland and Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, Sweden). Its main aim is to shed light on where Iceland stands compared to these countries in term of corporatist practices. Scholars view corporatist public committees as the core expression of Scandinavian corporatism and thus well suited for the measurement of corporatism. This study shows that the functional representational channel is an important feature of Icelandic democracy. In Iceland various interest groups are integrated into the democratic process of decision-making and implementation in an institutionalized and privileged manner. This is the essence of corporatism, defined as the institutionalized and privileged integration of organized interests in the preparation and/or implementation of public policies. Moreover, the results show that Iceland is today much more corporatist than the Scandinavian countries; especially, in terms of preparatory corporatism. Already in 1970, it appears that Iceland was more corporatist than Sweden in terms of the number of corporatist committees. The paper also sheds light on sectoral corporatism in Iceland. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland University of Iceland: Peer Reviewed Journals Norway Veftímaritið Stjórnmál og stjórnsýsla 14 1 167 188 |
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This paper compares the number of corporatist public committees, appointed by central government, in Iceland and Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, Sweden). Its main aim is to shed light on where Iceland stands compared to these countries in term of corporatist practices. Scholars view corporatist public committees as the core expression of Scandinavian corporatism and thus well suited for the measurement of corporatism. This study shows that the functional representational channel is an important feature of Icelandic democracy. In Iceland various interest groups are integrated into the democratic process of decision-making and implementation in an institutionalized and privileged manner. This is the essence of corporatism, defined as the institutionalized and privileged integration of organized interests in the preparation and/or implementation of public policies. Moreover, the results show that Iceland is today much more corporatist than the Scandinavian countries; especially, in terms of preparatory corporatism. Already in 1970, it appears that Iceland was more corporatist than Sweden in terms of the number of corporatist committees. The paper also sheds light on sectoral corporatism in Iceland. |
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