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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
The "quarrelsome" sense is from Latin concertativus. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
The concertation sense is a back-formation from concertation, replacing the -ation suffix with -ative.
Adjective[edit]
concertative (comparative more concertative, superlative most concertative)
- (politics) Related to concertation, especially in the context of tripartism.
- 1983, Alexander Kouzmin, Public Sector Administration: New Perspectives, page 59:
- […] the development of the 'concertative state', the institutionalized consultation between large interest groups, government and administration.
- 1986, Jeffrey A. Hart, “British Industrial Policy”, in Claude E. Barfield, William A. Schambra, editors, The Politics of Industrial Policy: A Conference Sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research[1], page 131:
- It [sc. the NEDC system] was clearly one of several concertative arrangements set up by the British state to provide channels of access for labor and management to industrial policy making.
- 1988, Henrik Enroth, quoting Neil Elder at al., “Populism and the Particularization of Solidarity: On the Sweden Democrats”, in Giuseppe Sciortino, Jeffrey C. Alexander, Peter Kivisto, editors, Populism in the Civil Sphere, published 2020, page 208:
- The Swedish political system has long been regarded as exemplary of what political scientists have called a “consensus model” of democracy […] During the postwar period, political institutions have supposedly been characterized by “a low intensity of conflict, together with a highly effective machinery for conflict resolution. The predominant style of policy-making is seen as concertative and deliberative, and the level of inter-elite agreement is high” (Elder at al. 1988: 182; cf. 465–7).