The “corporate solution”. Political right and social pluralism in the interwar period (1919-1945)

Abstract

This paper makes a historical approach to theoretical and institutional development of Corporatism in Europe during the “interwar period”. A time where the "corporate solution" became notable legal-political instrument to resolve the acceptance issue of integrating large, autonomous or hierarchical social pluralism, born of the Industrial Revolution. So the article analyze the five major projects that altered substantially the conventions of European political rights, by placing the corporation as an instrument of control of pluralism in social reform and constitutional reform: Labor institutionalization, denial of the same personality State, the constitutionalization of corporatism the unique English project to a “industrial democray” and, finally, the nationalization of the same "corporate solution", cause of its immediate political and intellectual ostracism after the end of World War II.