Pluralism, corporatism and néo-corporatism, which differences for the representation of the interests?
Sabine Saurugger proposes the fact that the studies concerning the place of the lobbys in the policy-making were inspired a long time by American work resulting from the theory of the international relations and were located in the pluralist paradigm. David Truman then Robert Dahl established the large theoretical bases of them and pluralism is indicated: “As a system of representation of the interests in which the constituent groups are organized in a variable number of categories multiple, voluntarily made up, competing, deprived of hierarchical and autodéterminées organization (by the type or the field of interest); categories which are not especially authorized, are recognized, subsidized, not created or controlled by the State in some manner that it is in the choice of the leaders or the articulation of the interests and who do not exert a monopoly of representation in their respective categories. ” The pluralist system would be thus a system in which the organized lobbys are made
