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Authoritarian, corporatist, Catholic regime of Dollfuss and Schuschnigg (1934–1938): single party (Fatherland Front), a Ständestaat inspired by Quadragesimo Anno, repression of socialists and Nazis, and defense of a German, Christian, independent Austria.
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I want a Christian, independent Austria under a strong chancellor and a single party, with Catholic corporations replacing parliament, parties and unions.
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Leans further toward religious than 96% of the 276 ideologies in the catalog.
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On Economy, it sits practically at the catalog median.
Here it shares common ground with most ideologies.
An Austrian chancellor, Dollfuss established Austrofascism, an authoritarian corporatist state with a Catholic base that dissolved parliament and repressed socialists and Nazis until his assassination by Nazi agents.
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The Ständestaat of Dollfuss and Schuschnigg: the 1934 civil war, dissolved parties, the Fatherland Front, professional corporations, political Catholicism, anti-Nazism and anti-socialism, until the 1938 Anschluss.
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A parliamentary republic in Eastern Europe, Hungary is governed under so-called illiberal democracy, uniting nationalism, Christian conservatism, sovereignty vis-à-vis the European Union, and strong control of media and institutions.
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The Ständestaat of Dollfuss and Schuschnigg: the 1934 civil war, dissolved parties, the Fatherland Front, professional corporations, political Catholicism, anti-Nazism and anti-socialism, until the 1938 Anschluss.
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Spanish authoritarian nationalism of Catholic and syndicalist inspiration, created by José Antonio Primo de Rivera on the corporatism of his father Miguel's dictatorship; it defends a corporatist state, national unity and social hierarchy, and was a pillar of Francoism.
Model that organizes society into corporations of workers and employers integrated into the state, seeking harmony between classes and directed economic cooperation instead of conflict or free competition.
Authoritarian nationalist movement that arose in 1930s Brazil, Christian and corporatist, with the motto God, Fatherland and Family, a mass aesthetic and opposition to liberalism and communism.
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Christian theocratist doctrine that subordinates political power to religious authority, holding that divine law and the Church should govern the state and customs, from medieval and papal ultramontanism to modern reconstructionist projects.
Project that seeks to organize state and society according to the strict interpretation of a religious doctrine, subordinating laws, customs, and politics to sacred precepts and rejecting modern secularism.
Doctrine of rule by the best, which entrusts power to a minority qualified by virtue, education or birth, rejecting political equality and majority rule, which it sees as a risk to competence.
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