Intressemakt - Relationen mellan stat och intresseorganisationer i demokratiteoretisk belysning
(2006)Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- Which general outlines are preferable in the relation between organizations and government? From normative theory and method I throw light upon this question by defining and comparing two different democratic standpoints. The substantial democratic standpoint focuses on political effectiveness and the procedural democratic standpoint focuses on equal representation. The normative discussion aims at comparing how well the different standpoints function in political praxis. Since the ambition is to discuss concrete praxis I have also chosen to analyse an extensive case of interest influence in Swedish politics empirically. This case is about LO and the social democratic party. The empiric material shows that the organization has a lot of... (More)
- Which general outlines are preferable in the relation between organizations and government? From normative theory and method I throw light upon this question by defining and comparing two different democratic standpoints. The substantial democratic standpoint focuses on political effectiveness and the procedural democratic standpoint focuses on equal representation. The normative discussion aims at comparing how well the different standpoints function in political praxis. Since the ambition is to discuss concrete praxis I have also chosen to analyse an extensive case of interest influence in Swedish politics empirically. This case is about LO and the social democratic party. The empiric material shows that the organization has a lot of influence in the decision making. It also shows democratic problems connected to representation and special treatment. In a constructive chapter, the normative and empirical discussions are brought together in two main conclusions. The first conclusion is that no governmental special treatment is preferable when it comes to organizations? possibilities to influence politics. The second conclusion is that LO's economical support to the social democratic party should be discontinued, and that LO should become politically independent. (Less)
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- author
- Larsson, Ellen
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2006
- type
- L2 - 2nd term paper (old degree order)
- subject
- keywords
- Intresseorganisationer, Inflytande, Demokrati, Representativitet, LO, Political and administrative sciences, Statsvetenskap, förvaltningskunskap
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 1324310
- date added to LUP
- 2007-01-24 00:00:00
- date last changed
- 2007-01-30 00:00:00
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abstract = {{Which general outlines are preferable in the relation between organizations and government? From normative theory and method I throw light upon this question by defining and comparing two different democratic standpoints. The substantial democratic standpoint focuses on political effectiveness and the procedural democratic standpoint focuses on equal representation. The normative discussion aims at comparing how well the different standpoints function in political praxis. Since the ambition is to discuss concrete praxis I have also chosen to analyse an extensive case of interest influence in Swedish politics empirically. This case is about LO and the social democratic party. The empiric material shows that the organization has a lot of influence in the decision making. It also shows democratic problems connected to representation and special treatment. In a constructive chapter, the normative and empirical discussions are brought together in two main conclusions. The first conclusion is that no governmental special treatment is preferable when it comes to organizations? possibilities to influence politics. The second conclusion is that LO's economical support to the social democratic party should be discontinued, and that LO should become politically independent.}},
author = {{Larsson, Ellen}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Intressemakt - Relationen mellan stat och intresseorganisationer i demokratiteoretisk belysning}},
year = {{2006}},
}