The Analytical Model of the Operation of Group In the Decision-Making Process
Author: Hen-Chin Chen
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The interaction between group and state in the decision-making process has increasingly become new topic in the policy analysis. In accordance with the leading scholarship on the subject, this paper is to explore the different viewpoints of the different model in explaining the changing relationship between group and state in the policy formation. After discussing the four models of the interaction between group and state – pluralism, corporatism, subsystem, and policy network, this paper critically compares and analyses the differences found in these models. Since these four models were limited by their applying theories and approaches, the important questions cannot find answers from them. Therefore, based on the mutual interdependency between state and social groups，this paper finally presents an integrated framework. Hopefully，this integrated framework might move beyond mere description and has more explanatory power in the relationship between group and state’s policy.