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estricts competition and openness among organized interests. This ordered
system stands in contrast to the general ethos of the pluralist system where
organized interests are in competition with each other, access is open and
organizations are internally independent of the state”. Williamson (1989, 14 e
16) apunta tamén que esta característica do sistema corporatista se debe, para
Schmitter, a que o corporatismo é “a system of interest intermediation rather
than interest representation”, é dicir, “a mode of organizing and controlling
conflicting functional interests”. En definitiva, “the generation of interests within
society may not simply be reflected by organized interests, but to some extent
shaped by these organizations rather than being just the product of individual
choice”.
O corporatismo de Estado e o corporatismo social
Inspirándose na obra de Manoïlesco, 454 aínda que cun aparato conceptual
propio, Schmitter (1974, 102-105) introduce a distinción entre dous subtipos de
corporatismo, que intentamos representar no seguinte cadro:
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