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	Corporatism Analysis	Comparative Political Economy
Field	Political Economy	Political Economy
Family	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Year of origin	1974	2001
Originator	Philippe C. Schmitter	Comparative politics & political economy tradition (Shonfield, Katzenstein, Hall, Soskice)
Type	Conceptual-comparative framework	Macro-comparative research framework
Seminal source	Schmitter, P. C. (1974). Still the Century of Corporatism? The Review of Politics, 36(1), 85-131.	Hall, P. A., & Soskice, D. (Eds.). (2001). Varieties of Capitalism: The Institutional Foundations of Comparative Advantage. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780199247752
Aliases	Neo-Corporatism Analysis, Interest Intermediation Analysis, Concertation Analysis, Corporatism vs Pluralism Framework	CPE, Comparative Capitalisms Approach, Macro-Comparative Political Economy, Institutional Political Economy
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Summary	Corporatism analysis is the conceptual and comparative framework for characterizing how organized interests are represented and incorporated into policymaking, defined classically by Philippe Schmitter's 1974 essay 'Still the Century of Corporatism?'. Schmitter contrasts corporatism — a system in which a limited number of singular, compulsory, non-competitive, hierarchically ordered peak associations are recognized or licensed by the state and granted a representational monopoly in exchange for controlling their members — with pluralism, in which many voluntary, competing, non-hierarchical associations vie for influence. The framework further distinguishes societal from state corporatism and analyzes tripartite concertation among government, labor, and capital.	Comparative political economy (CPE) is the subfield that asks how political institutions and markets interact to produce different economic outcomes across capitalist democracies, and the macro-comparative research strategy that subfield employs. Rather than treating the economy as a self-contained system, CPE treats production regimes, labor markets, finance, welfare states, and innovation as politically constructed and institutionally embedded, then compares how distinct national configurations — for instance the liberal market economies and coordinated market economies of Hall and Soskice's varieties-of-capitalism framework — generate systematically different patterns of wages, growth, inequality, and adjustment. The approach combines small-N case comparison and large-N cross-national analysis under a shared institutionalist logic.