What drove the horizontal spread of authoritarianism and corporatism between Europe and Latin America in the 20th century? What processes of transnational diffusion were in motion and from where to where? In what type of ‘critical junctures’ were they adopted and why did corporatism largely transcend the cultural background of its origins? What was the role of intellectual-politicians in the process? This book will tackle these issues by adopting a transnational and comparative research design encompassing a wide range of countries.

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 he co-edited Rethinking Fascism and Dictatorship in Europe (2014) and Corporatism and Fascism. The Corporatist Wave in Europe (2017).

Federico Finchelstein