Italian Fascism and Developmental Dictatorship

by A. James Gregor

Political scientists generally have been disposed to treat Italian Fascism--if not generic fascism--as an idiosyncratic episode in the special history of Europe. James Gregor contends, to the contrary, that Italian Fascism has much in common with an inclusive class of developmental revolutionary regimes.

Originally published in 1980.

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Genres: Politics, History

446 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1980

About the author

Anthony James Gregor, Ph.D. (Columbia University, 1961; M.A., 1959, B.A., 1952), was Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, well known for his research on fascism, Marxism, and national security.

He previously served as Oppenheimer Professor of Strategy at Marine Corps University (Quantico, VA); Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin; Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky; Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii; and Instructor of Philosophy at Washington College. He also was a founder of the International Association for the Advancement of Ethnology and Eugenics, and a participant in Italian neofascist circle of the 1950s and 1960s.