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Comment: Fascism, Single-Party Dictatorships, and the Search for a Comparative Framework

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 July 2002

David D. Roberts
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Abstract

Salazar's Portugal, Franco's Spain, Mussolini's Italy and Hitler's Germany were roughly contemporaneous departures from what had come to seem the progressive democratic mainstream. Seeking greater authority and effectiveness, each revolved around a strong leader and a single party. So there was unquestionably a family resemblance among them, and comparison surely illuminates each. Moreover, it is useful to pinpoint the variables that account for the differences among them. By doing so, in fact, we can devise a comparative array, a scale of radicalisation, understood in the neutral sense as the extent of departure from the norm and/or the prior situation.

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Research Article
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Contemporary European History , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , August 2002 , pp. 455 - 461
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© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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