The Catholic ethic and the spirit of corporatism: Historical and contemporary links between Church and state in social services, health care and education

The political concept of corporatism is used to analyze Catholic-sponsored organizations as providers of US welfare-state services. Corporatism nowadays characterizes a political arrangement by which professional and industrial sectors acquire state-like powers in order to coordinate social producti...

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Main Author: Metafora, Richard Louis
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 1999
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9920632