Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe
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European history
Fascism
Fascism in Germany
Fascism in Italy
Fascism in Spain
Gramsci
Hegemony
History of fascism
Language_English
Liberal democracy
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Political theory
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Rise of fascism
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- ISBN 9781786635235
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jan 2019
- Publisher: Verso Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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.
Dylan Riley is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and is on the editorial committee of New Left Review.
