The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe - Softcover

Riley, Dylan

 
9781786635235: The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1786635232 ISBN 13: 9781786635235
Publisher: Verso Books, 2019

Synopsis

Drawing on a Gramscian theoretical perspective and developing a systematic comparative approach, The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe challenges the received Tocquevillian consensus on authoritarianism by arguing that fascist regimes, just like mass democracies, depended on well-organised, rather than weak and atomised, civil societies. In making this argument the book focuses on three crucial cases of interwar authoritarianism: Italy, Spain and Romania, selected because they are all counterintuitive from the perspective of established explanations, while usefully demonstrating the range of fascist outcomes in interwar Europe. Civic Foundations argues that, in all three cases, fascism emerged because of the rapid development of voluntary associations, combined with weakly developed political parties among the dominant class, thus creating a crisis of hegemony. Riley then traces the specific form that this crisis took depending on the form of civil society developed (autonomous, as in Italy; elite-dominated, as in Spain; or state-dominated, as in Romania) in the nineteenth century.

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About the Author

Dylan Riley is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and is on the editorial committee of New Left Review.

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Publisher
Verso Books
Publication date
2019
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1786635232
ISBN 13 
9781786635235
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
320