Charisma and Fascism / Edition 1

by Antonio Costa Pinto, Roger Eatwell, Stein Ugelvik Larsen

Overview

Fascism remains a topic that fascinates both academic and general audiences. This is the first book to look systematically at the leaders of fascism and related movements in the inter-war era.

It shows how fascist leaders came to personify their movements and why the Führeprinzip was applied in all fascist organizations. It also explains how fascist leadership was of a very particular kind: It was almost unlimited in political discipline and required complete subordination. The legitimacy was based on a very vague notion of 'the organic unity of the state and the people', giving the leaders competence to rule without accountability to a party organization or state bodies. Thus, we can observe in all fascist parties/movements a practical form of leadership where policies of 'split and rule' were common in absence of principles of representation and opposition feedbacks. The fascist führer was the leader, the party, the ideology - and when in power: the state itself.

This book was previously published as a special issue of Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415384926
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/07/2006
Series:	Totalitarianism Movements and Political Religions
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

António Costa Pinto is professor of Modern European History and Politics at the Institute of Social Science, University of Lisbon.,
Roger Eatwell is professor of European Politics at the University of Bath,
Stein Ugelvik Larsen is professor of Comparative Politics at the Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen.

Table of Contents

Part One Approaching Charisma; Chapter 1 The Concept and Theory of Charismatic Leadership, Roger Eatwell; Chapter 2 Hitler, Charisma and Structure: Reflections on Historical Methodology, Michel Dobry; Part Two The Leaders; Chapter 3 The Model of Charismatic Leadership and its Applicability to the Rule of Adolf Hitler, M. Rainer Lepsius; Chapter 4 Franco, the Spanish Falange and the Institutionalisation of Mission, Stanley G. Payne; Chapter 5 ‘Chaos’ and ‘Order’: Preto, Salazar and Charismatic Appeal in Inter-war Portugal, António Costa Pinto; Chapter 6 Charisma and Hybrid Legitimacy in Pétain's État français (1940–44), Marc Olivier Baruch; Chapter 7 Ante Paveli?, Charisma and National Mission in Wartime Croatia, Ivo Goldstein; Chapter 8 Charisma from below? The Quisling Case in Norway, Stein Ugelvik Larsen; Chapter 9 Codreanu, Romanian National Traditions and Charisma, Stephen Fischer-Galati; Chapter 10 Mussolini as the Prototypical Charismatic Dictator, Emilio Gentile; conclusion Conclusion: Fascism, Dictators and Charisma, António Costa Pinto*, Stein Ugelvik Larsen**;