Hi Eltion,

You might wanna look at my paper on page 9/10 and on the table on page 22:

http://www.mpifg.de/pu/mpifg_dp/dp14-14.pdf

Höpner, Martin and Mark Lutter. 2014. "One Currency and Many Modes of Wage Formation: Why the Eurozone Is Too Heterogeneous for the Euro." MPIfG Discussion Paper 14/14.

We describe and use a total of 10 indicators on corporatism and coordination. Not sure whether that will be of help, but it might be a good start to look at.

Best

Mark

Thank you Mark,

I will take a look.

You might lookup chapter 4 in Social Democracy in a Post-Communist Europe,  2014 by Michael I. Waller.  You can find chapter 4 through the Google Scholar website. Or a peer reviewed journal article by Baldur Thorhallsson and Rainer Kattel – Neo-liberal Small States and Econmic Crisis: Lessons for democratic corporatism, Journal of Baltic Studies, 2012, 1-21, published on-line by Routledge.

you might also want to look at "varieties of capitalism" literature that discusses corporatist styles of decision making. See work by Peter Hall and David Soskice. 

I can suggest the essays collected by Schmitter and Lembruch (eds), Trends toward Corporatism Intermediation, London, 1979. It is always an ancient test but very valid to front the problem of corporatism in the democratic systems. I found many stimulating elements of analysis.  

To make the obvious and probably annoying response, it depends what you mean by corporatism.

The OECD attempted this a while back here:

http://www.oecd.org/els/emp/34846881.pdf

The Kenworthy paper they refer to on quantitative indicators has been published as Quantitative indicators of corporatism

L Kenworthy - International Journal of Sociology, 2003 

I agree - what definition is sought?

Corporatism has too many definitions or meanings and it becomes confusing rather than defining.  Confucius demanded that names must be defining in order to be useful and of some value to the community.  I would list the known definitions as:

1:  vocational groups within collective political definition

2:  organized labor with a centralized bargaining process among the representative employers

3:  those persons who corrupt public policy and perhaps the most often used definition

4:  the modern industrial machine operating under the capitalistic model.

Vocational grouping probably does not apply to the US so I suggest we use the Confucius graphic pencil and strike it!  I suspect that the most common use of corporatism has to do with corruption of public policy by special interests (Lind, 2014).  Some would say that corporatism falls into the Jeffersonian idealism view of corporations as the enemy, and throwing the term corporatist at someone is the middle finger of American politics.

Lind suggests that the defined corporatism is no longer a useful terms and it should be struck from our useful list of favorable terminology.  A good place to start he suggests is to call things what they are, for instance insurance, finance companies, and real estate should be classified within the financial sector.

Lind, M. (2014, January 5). The “corporatist” confusion: Why a prominent political terms needs to be retired. Salon Media Group.

With the courtesy of Jahn Detlef. This index has just made my day...

http://ser.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2014/08/26/ser.mwu028.abstract

Hi Eltion,

In addition to the above responses it might be helpful to have a look at the ICTWSS (Database on Institutional Characteristics of Trade Unions, Wage Setting, State Intervention and Social Pacts in 34 countries between 1960 and 2012) available at:

http://www.uva-aias.net/208

There some indicators of coordination, centralization and state intervention that might work as proxies and I think CEE countries are included.

Best

Andreas

Hi Eltion

Indeed ICTWSS is a very comprehensive database

You may find useful the following paper by Jelle Visser "Wage Bargaining Institutions - from crisis to crisis" .

Regards

Alfonso

http://ec.europa.eu/economy_finance/publications/economic_paper/2013/pdf/ecp488_en.pdf

I am looking for an index or indicators on the level of corporatism in Croatia. But, I can not find enthing. Happy new year to all of you!

Siarof's article may be helpful: http://www.sociol.unimi.it/corsi/polcomp/materials/siaroff.pdf

Thanks

Hi there, not sure it is helpfull to anyone but just in case, take a look at

Jahn, D. (2014) ‘Changing of the Guard: Trends in Corporatist Arrangements in 42 Highly Industrialized Societies from 1960 to 2010.’ Socio-Economic Review.

The author also provides up-to-date data

Thanks all of you!