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The Problem: Of all the things that do not work well in contemporary liberal democracies, the system of organized and specialized interest intermediation must be rated among the worst.1 Everywhere, both the Right and the Left love to complain about the influence of “special interests” — and to accuse each other of being more indebted to them.
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Schmitter, P.C. (1994). Interests, Associations and Intermediation in a Reformed Post-Liberal Democracy. In: Streeck, W. (eds) Staat und Verbände. Politische Vierteljahresschrift, vol 25. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-94220-3_6
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