| This study attempts to insert a public administration approach into an analytical tradition which examines the interpenetration of the political and economic spheres in advanced capitalist countries. It analyses the formation of the Canadian position in negotiations with France in 1971 and the late 1980s about French fishing rights off Atlantic Canada.;Concepts like interests, resources, and interorganizational and interdependent relationships are applied to identify influential groups of actors. It is argued that in 1971 the federal cabinet with significant assistance by the federal bureaucracy and input by the processing sector were most influential. In the late l980s this power-structure was maintained but with additional influence from interest organizations representing fishermen, shoreworkers and crew, and provincial governments. It is further argued that the decision-making framework of corporate pluralism--although not determining the outcome of the decision-making process--directs the participating actors and affects the outcome of the decision-making process. |
