Gallagher Laver and Mair
Assignment:
Answer ONE (1) of the following questions in your post:
Question #1: What is corporatism? How does corporatism relate to what you know about interest groups in the United States in a reputational sense? What can we learn from European countries that display corporatist trends?
Question #2: What are the effects of pluralism? Why might groups concerned with the environment, womens issues, or other concerns have an easier time being heard in a pluralist system? What other issue advocates (if any) might become prominent in Europe in coming years? Why?
Question #3: What are policy networks? Why are they salient at the level of the European Union? How might the revolution in Information Technology change them?
Standards:
The same standards (3-4 paragraph posts, attention to grammar, critical analysis rather than recitation of materials) apply to your main post this week