This article rethink the role of corporatism as a political device against liberal democracy and especially as a set of authoritarian institutions that spread across interwar Europe and which was an agent for the hybridisation 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 organised interest representation and as an authoritarian alternative to liberal democracy.
fascism; corporatism; dictatorships; legislatures
