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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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Engelbert Dollfuss leans further toward autocracy than 95% of the 749 personalities in the catalog.
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On Intervention, Engelbert Dollfuss sits practically at the catalog median.
Here they share common ground with most personalities.
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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.
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.
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.
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Crypto-AnarchismLibertarian22%
The last Pope-King, Pius IX ruled the Papal States until 1870 in the longest pontificate in history, defined the dogma of the Immaculate Conception, proclaimed papal infallibility at Vatican I, and condemned liberalism in the Syllabus of Errors.
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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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