OPERATIVE QUESTIONS WHEN MEASURING STATE-SOCIETY ARRANGEMENTS

• How is government organized? How centralized and influential are the bureaucracies that conceive and implement industrial policy? What are the instruments available to these agencies?



• How is the business sector organized? What is the influence of business peak associations?



• How is labor organized? What is the influence of labor peak associations? Are unions organized by sector or by firm?



• What institutions link state and society? Ex. public recruitment from universities, public firms, research and development, official finance, labor training apparatus, corporatist bargaining, etc.