concertative

comparative more concertative · superlative most concertative

1. governmentRelated to concertation, especially in the context of tripartism.

   […] the development of the 'concertative state', the institutionalized consultation between large interest groups, government and administration.

   1983, Alexander Kouzmin, Public Sector Administration: New Perspectives, page 59

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   It [sc. the NEDC system] was clearly one of several concertative arrangements set up by the British state to provide channels of access for labor and management to industrial policy making.

   1986, Jeffrey A. Hart, “British Industrial Policy”, in Claude E. Barfield, William A. Schambra, editors, The Politics of Industrial Policy: A Conference Sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, page 131

   The Swedish political system has long been regarded as exemplary of what political scientists have called a “consensus model” of democracy […] During the postwar period, political institutions have supposedly been characterized by “a low intensity of conflict, together with a highly effective machinery for conflict resolution. The predominant style of policy-making is seen as concertative and deliberative, and the level of inter-elite agreement is high” (Elder at al. 1988: 182; cf. 465–7).

   1988, Henrik Enroth, quoting Neil Elder at al., “Populism and the Particularization of Solidarity: On the Sweden Democrats”, in Giuseppe Sciortino, Jeffrey C. Alexander, Peter Kivisto, editors, Populism in the Civil Sphere, published 2020, page 208