{"product_id":"the-civic-foundations-of-fascism-in-europe-by-dylan-riley-9781786635235","title":"The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on a Gramscian theoretical perspective and developing a systematic comparative approach, \u003cem\u003eThe Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe\u003c\/em\u003e challenges the received Tocquevillian consensus on authoritarianism by arguing that fascist regimes, just like mass democracies, depended on well-organised, rather than weak and atomised, civil societies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn making this argument, the book focuses on three crucial cases of interwar authoritarianism: Italy, Spain, and Romania. These cases are selected because they are all counterintuitive from the perspective of established explanations while usefully demonstrating the range of fascist outcomes in interwar Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCivic Foundations\u003c\/em\u003e argues that, in all three cases, fascism emerged because of the rapid development of voluntary associations, combined with weakly developed political parties among the dominant class, thus creating a crisis of hegemony. Riley then traces the specific form that this crisis took, depending on the form of civil society developed in the nineteenth century: autonomous, as in Italy; elite-dominated, as in Spain; or state-dominated, as in Romania.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48010620928236,"sku":"9781786635235","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781786635235-the-civic-foundations-of-fascism-in-europe.jpg?v=1785154519","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-civic-foundations-of-fascism-in-europe-by-dylan-riley-9781786635235","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}