The State as a Clearing House: Interest Organizations, the Common Good, and the Arduous Rise of Pluralist Democracy in Postwar Germany
Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy
Published online on January 12, 2026
Abstract
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This article retells the German intellectual history of political pluralism from a novel perspective: that of the state as a clearing house. In regular business transactions, clearing houses settle debts and mediate between buyers and sellers, bearing ...
This article retells the German intellectual history of political pluralism from a novel perspective: that of the state as a clearing house. In regular business transactions, clearing houses settle debts and mediate between buyers and sellers, bearing ...