Theoretical approaches in Pressure Groups and Social Movements (original) (raw)

In order to comprehensively and systematically interpret the interest representation system and the role of groups within the political system, scholars have mainly used two diametrically opposed models, or approaches: pluralism and neo-corporatism. In the last decades of the 20th century, a third theoretical paradigm emerged that can be defined as neopluralist: it constitutes the attempt to overcome the limitations of the two classic models and, at the same time, to have a greater capacity to describe the dynamics and