Introduzione alla sezione monografica Dittature e corporativismi: casi nazionali a confronto

The introduction presents the special session of the issue that aims at examining the transnational flow of corporatist ideas and experiences in interwar years. In the mid-Seventies, Charles Maier’s book Recasting Bourgeois Europe explained that the stabilization of social order in the decade after the Great War was achieved by corporatist ways in France, Germany, and Italy. However, many other countries, not just in Europe, in that period saw the revival of corporatist projects, put into practice more or less. It was mostly the case of authoritarian state. The section focuses on three of theme: Portugal’s Estado novo (New State) under António Salazar, Spain during Franco’s dictatorship, Brasil in Getúlio Vargas era.