ABSTRACT
Management studies and political science are both social sciences and they share certain common characteristics. Both are interested in the allocation of resources given confl icting demands. Both share an interest in organizational design: in the case of management studies, the variable of interest has traditionally been the for-profi t corporation; in political science, the legislative system has taken pride of place. More recently both disciplines have sought to accommodate new actors and infl uences and in both cases the increasing pluralism and heterogeneity of modern societies and economies has prompted this.
