THE RISE AND DECLINE OF CORPORATISM - THE CASE OF SWEDEN

Corporatism is a method to pacify intense minorities by giving them an other opportunity to influence politics when they have no chance in pa rliament. This possibility helps to keep the system together; minoriti es get an incentive to stick to the system and social integration is p romoted. During the 1980s we have, however, witnessed a gradual declin e of this neocorporatist model of interest representation. Europe is a pproaching the American pluralist model instead. Sweden, once the prot otype of the Social Democratic Corporatist State, is the best example of this change.