ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with the institutions through which a self-governing society would determine the social interest at levels below that of the society as a whole, that is, with the detailed social construction of the social interest within the broad framework determined at the national level. The detailed working out of the social interest in practice needs to take account of community interests as articulated by the interest and cause groups that people choose to establish and participate in. However, community interest in production units would not be confined to influencing the pattern of demand. Interest and cause groups would also seek to influence directly the activities of production units that affected the issues with which they were concerned.
