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Fascism, corporatism and the crafting of authoritarian institutions in inter-war European dictatorships
The diffusion of political and social corporatism, which with the single-party are hallmarks of the
institutional transfers among European dictatorships, challenges some rigid dichotomous interpretations of interwar
fascism. This chapter rethinks the role of corporatism as a political device against liberal democracy and
especially as a set of authoritarian institutions that spread across inter-war Europe and which was an agent for
the hybridization of the institutions of fascist-era dictatorships. We argue that corporatism was at the forefront of
this process of cross-national diffusion, both as a new form of organized interest representation and as an
authoritarian alternative to liberal democracy