Paper/Speech Details of Conference Program for the 2020 NISPAcee On-line Conference for PhD students Program Overview The 2020 NISPAcee On-line Conference for PhD students Author(s) Eddy Bruno Esien Charles University Prague 5 Czech Republic Title NEO-CORPORATISM AND UNEMPLOYED: IN GOVERNMENT AND INTEREST GROUPS INTERMEDIATION OF INTEREST FOR WORK PROMOTION File Paper files are available only for conference participants, please login first. Presenter Eddy Bruno Esien Abstract This article analysis governments and interest groups intermediation of interest in the realm of Employment Act under neo-corporatism to understand young third-country immigrants’ transition to work in Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. Existing research pointed to neo-corporatism institutionalized pattern of policy implementation that emphasizes recent public service reform where large interest organization cooperate with each other and with public authorities in the intermediation of interest to reconcile competing groups interest with the public, but the governance pertains to inequality and entails risk to ensure public value accountability. Although neo-corporatism governance entails regulatory weakness to resolve social conflict, there is still little research in Central Eastern European (CEE) countries explaining government and interests’ groups intermediations of interest in the realm of Employment Act under neo-corporatism model to understand young third country immigrants’ transition to work. Based on a qualitative cross-national case-oriented research approach with fewer-country comparison, documents, published and unpublished scholastic texts are collected and analysed by means of a document and content analysis technique to fill in this gap. The findings show that exchange interaction for interest groups responsibility, industrial restructuring, and compliance monitoring are a major perceived influence in neo-corporatism intermediation of interest governance with lack of public value accountability and political disintegration that may jeopardize antagonistic groups’ quality and service to reconcile social dispute when looking at issues such as young third country immigrants and socioeconomically disadvantaged groups in corporatist interest intermediation governance for work promotion. The study demonstrates a certain territorial pack decentralised multilevel governance in a mixed network economy of generalised corporatist interest intermediation exchange similarities. However, Hungary and Poland are dissimilar to Czech Republic with a (strong) corporatist interest intermediation governance of organised interest groups for the socio-political organisation of society, whereas in Czech Republic, the corporatist intermediation element is mixed. The outcome points to deliberate democracy in neoliberal democratic setting with government regulatory governance to defuse social unrest in political crisis-management and navigates young vulnerable people into employment systems. This is relevant to bureaucratic accountability, but the risks to democratic deficit, competitiveness, political inequality, and inefficiency in complex policy implementation process may impair ethnic minority people’s belongings, jeopardize public value accountability, and hampered state-community trust with open democratic values. Keywords: CEE countries; compliance monitoring; deliberate democracy; employment policy; interest groups; intermediation of interest Neo-corporatism; third-country nationals; government
