Faire campagne pour libéraliser le patronat : l’élection de François Perigot en 1986 et les réformes du Conseil national du patronat français (CNPF)

Abstract

années 1980. Cela permet notamment d’identifier des pôles concurrents dans la production d’idées. D’autre part, l’article étudie la promotion de nouvelles formes d’action collective, comme le « lobbying ». Tenues ensemble, ces deux lignes d’analyse permettent de mieux comprendre ce que la libéralisation de l’économie fait aux organisations patronales. The article analyzes the ideological debates and evolving practices within the French National Employers’ Organization, or CNPF, in connection with the liberalization of the French economy during the early 1980s. By modifying several of the CNPF’s missions, economic liberalization gave rise to internal debate within the employers’ organization regarding its new role and function. These discussions were at the heart of the election for the CNPF’s presidency in 1986, when two candidates were campaigning to “adapt the CNPF to the liberal context.” The article combines two objectives. On the one hand, it analyzes the place of ideological debate in a campaign for the CNPF presidency in the early 1980s. This makes it possible to identify how competing ideas were produced. On the other hand, this article also examines how new forms of collective action, such as lobbying, were promoted. Taken together, these two lines of analysis allow us to better understand what the liberalization of the economy has done to employers’ organizations.