Pilastro del quotidiano funzionamento della società ‘pluralista’ è la condivisione del processo, senza soluzione di continuità, attraverso cui individui e organizzazioni – e tra queste le istituzioni pubbliche – partecipano alla sua costruzione, stabilizzazione, evoluzione. Rispetto ad esso, in letteratura prevalgono due schemi di comprensione che esprimono una visione della società che appare ingenua, se non ipocrita. Da una parte, la rappresentazione funzionalista di matrice sistemica; dall’altra, la razionalità assoluta di matrice individualista. Stretti tra queste polarità vengono affrontati tanti temi del rapporto individuo-organizzazione tra cui il lobbying. Il presente contributo qualifica il lobbying quale forma dell’interazione tra individui e organizzazioni, in virtù della contemporanea e antagonista presenza di due processi, al tempo stesso, paradossalmente, in contrasto e sinergia: l’azione e l’istituzionalizzazione.
The ‘pluralistic’ society roots on the endless process through which individuals and organizations – among them public institutions – participate to its construction, stabilization and evolution. This process has been interpreted by the Literature through two main comprehension schemes expressing an ingenuous, where not hypocrite, view of the society. On one side, the functionalist representation having systemic matrix; on the other side, the absolute rationality having individualistic matrix. Many themes related to the relationship among individuals and organizations, among them lobbying, are addressed by referring to these schemes. This contribution qualifies lobbying as a form of interaction among individuals and organizations, deriving from the combination of two antagonist although coexisting processes: action and institutionalization.
The ‘pluralistic’ society roots on the endless process through which individuals and organizations – among them public institutions – participate to its construction, stabilization and evolution. This process has been interpreted by the Literature through two main comprehension schemes expressing an ingenuous, where not hypocrite, view of the society. On one side, the functionalist representation having systemic matrix; on the other side, the absolute rationality having individualistic matrix. Many themes related to the relationship among individuals and organizations, among them lobbying, are addressed by referring to these schemes. This contribution qualifies lobbying as a form of interaction among individuals and organizations, deriving from the combination of two antagonist although coexisting processes: action and institutionalization.
