This article focuses on policy-making analysis from the following theoretical views: (1) Social order and regulation of conflict, particularly the associative dimension as an additional institutional basis to the classical ones, namely, community, economic/political market and state/bureaucracy. (2) Neo- institutionalist currents. (3) Sociological, political regime, coalitions and international system approaches. (4) Analytical elements such as agenda, actors, arenas, processes and outcomes. (5) Pluralist, neocorporatist and neopluralist theorizations and connections between modes of policy-making and organized interest intermediation.
Policy-making analysis; pluralism; neocorporativism; neopluralism