Diachronic and Cross-Cultural Comparison: Toward a Better Understanding of International Fascism

What is it about?

Comparative fascist studies and the Most Similar and Most Different Systems Designs: An explicitly comparative approach should allow scholars to identify more clearly the exact social, political, and cultural determinants of the emergence, growth, and/or decline of fascist movements. Against the background of recent innovation in the definition of generic fascism, it appears, moreover, possible to apply it not merely in synchronic cross-cultural analysis.

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Why is it important?

Using MSSD and MDSD can let us better understand the dynamics of the rise and fall of fascist movements. Within diachronic comparison, one can now also contrast classically fascist with neo-fascist groupings when analyzing, for instance, the fate of young democracies, as has been attempted in first juxtapositions of the decline of the Weimar Republic to the develop-ment of post-Soviet Russia.