An Authoritarian Third Way in the Era of Fascism

This book considers how and why dictatorships on the periphery of Europe, especially Salazar's New State in Portugal, inspired some of these regimes' new political institutions particularly within Europe and Latin America.

This book takes a transnational and comparative approach that analyses the process of diffusion of a third way in selected transitions to authoritarianism in Europe and Latin America.

When looking at the authoritarian wave of the 1930s, it is not difficult to see how some regimes appeared to offer an authoritarian third way somewhere between democracy and fascism. It is in this context that some Iberian dictatorships, such as those of Primo de Rivera in Spain, Salazar's New State in Portugal and the short-lived Dollfuss regime in Austria are mentioned frequently. Especially during the 1930s, and in those parts of Europe under Axis control, these models were discussed and often adopted by several dictatorships. This book considers how and why these dictatorships on the periphery of Europe, especially Salazar's New State in Portugal, inspired some of these regimes' new political institutions particularly within Europe and Latin America. It pays special attention to how, as they proposed and pursued these authoritarian reforms, these domestic political actors also looked at these institutional models as suitable for their own countries.

The volume is ideal for students and scholars of comparative fascism, authoritarian regimes, and European and Latin American modern history and politics.

Autorentext

António Costa Pinto is Research Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. His research interests include fascism and authoritarianism, political elites, and democratization. He is the author of The Nature of Fascism Revisited (2012) and Latin America Dictatorships in the Era of Fascism (2020).

Inhalt

1.Looking for an authoritarian 'third way' in the era of fascism: Diffusion,
models and interactions (António Costa Pinto) 2. Salazar's dictatorship and the diffusion of authoritarian models in the 1930s (António Costa Pinto and Rita de Almeida Carvalho) 3. Salazar's splendid dictatorship': Selling authoritarian ideas in democratic Denmark (Joachim Lund) 4. Vichy and the Salazar model (Olivier Dard and Ana Isabel Sardinha) 5. God-King-Homeowner: Models of social organisation in the ideology of the Yugoslav National Movement Zbor (Rastko Lompar) 6. Corporatist models and the Czechoslovak National Fascist Community (Jakub Drábik) 7. Three faces of Croatian corporatism (Leo Mari) 8. Searching for a third way: Romanian-Portuguese interactions in rightwing political thought (Constantin Iordachi) 9. Unlikely Mediterranean authoritarian crossings: Salazar's regime as model for the 4th of August dictatorship in Greece (1936-40) (Aristotle Kallis) 10. The Andes encounter the Iberian dictatorships: The Salazar and Franco regimes as political models in Peru, Colombia and Ecuador (1930-50) (Carlos Ramiro Espinosa Fernandez De Cordova) 11. Social and political corporatism in 1930s Argentina and Chile (Gabriela Gomes) 12. The intellectual origins of Brazilian corporatism: Beyond Portugal (Luciano Aronne de Abreu and Gabriel Duarte Costaguta) 13. Looking for an authoritarian 'third way' in the era of fascism: Concluding remarks (António Costa Pinto)