Fascism’s missionary ideology and the autocratic wave of the interwar years

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6254576
AutoresK Weyland (0000-0002-6106-8661, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, USA, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen24
Número7
Páginas1253-1270
Fecha de publicación2017-11-10
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDemocratization (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1351-0347 • E-ISSN: 1743-890X
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13510347.2017.1322581
OpenAlexW2613600832
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas12

Because fascism embodied a missionary creed, it exemplifies the ideology-driven cooperation and diffusion among autocratic regimes that the Introduction to this special issue discussed. The messianic promise that forceful charismatic leadership sustained by fervent mass support would guarantee domestic order and restore national grandeur was attractive to innumerable citizens, important political elites, and even to prominent intellectuals across the globe. Consequently, fascism exuded strong, wide-ranging contagion and demonstration effects. Moreover, Mussolini and Hitler actively promoted the new credo and sought support for their expansionary tendencies

Autocracy · Charisma · Creed · Democracy · Globe · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · European history and politics · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society · Law