Institutions of Social Partnership. Legality and Legitimacy
Institutions of Social Partnership. Legality and Legitimacy

Summary/Abstract: When Theodor Geiger analysed institutionalization (which he also called democratization) of the class struggle, he pointed to the interconnection between this process and corporativism and the issues of power participation and of common decision-making of organized interest groups. He wrote: .The basis of democratic class struggle is organization and its method is consensus. People do not act as individuals but as members of parties, trade unions and associations of different kinds. But in fact, it is not a struggle. It is rather a cartel of organizations worked out in detail. Organizations develop new procedures to push their particular interests into the political process. They show their common interest in controlling the pie. It is naturally the pie of measures hiding the control of power through organization.. (Dahrendorf 1991, p. 178)

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