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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.
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I want a Catholic corporatist state, united under an authoritarian chief, with vertical unions organizing labor and protected trade.
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Leans further toward religious than 92% of the 276 ideologies in the catalog.
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Founder of the Spanish Falange, Primo de Rivera created national syndicalism, advocating a corporatist, nationalist, Catholic state against liberalism and Marxism, becoming a martyr of the Francoist right.
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A dictatorship born of the Civil War, Franco's Spain was an authoritarian, Catholic, corporatist regime that united nationalism and political repression and lasted until the democratic transition after the dictator's death.
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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 Spanish viceroyalty covering Mexico, Central America, today's US Southwest and the Philippines, governed by a viceroy and audiencias under royal patronage, with the Inquisition, a caste society, haciendas, silver mining and Crown-monopolized trade.
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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, 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.
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.
Current that preserves order, tradition, and hierarchy through a strong state, restricting freedoms and political participation in the name of social stability, morality, religion, and established authority.
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