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The Rise of Corporatist Regulation in the English and Canadian DairyIndustries

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Roy C. Barnes
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This article answers Larry Gerber's (1995) challenge for a renewedappreciation of the social science literature on corporatism and state theory byexplaining variations in corporatist institutions through the concept of policylegacies. To understand the variation in corporatist forms of governance, threepolicy areas are key: the long-standing trade policies of the England andCanada, the forms of government intervention during World War I, and priorpolitical battles within the dairy industries. In their own unique way, thesepolicies shaped the character of the market failure, the political capacities offarm organizations, and the institutional response that incorporated privateinterest groups within the formulation and implementation of public policy. Byviewing the emergence of corporatist institutions in England and Canada asexamples of governmental responses to economic crisis, this research oncorporatism contributes to the larger theory of the determinants, as well as theeffects, of the state in capitalist democracies.

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Social Science History , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , Fall 2001 , pp. 381 - 406
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Copyright © Social Science History Association 2001 

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