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[email protected] Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul Brasil Zaganella, Marco Zaganella Democratic Corporatism – The Italian debate during the “First Republic” (1948-1992) Estudos Ibero-Americanos, vol. 42, núm. 2, mayo-agosto, 2016, pp. 430-453 Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul Porto Alegre, Brasil Available in: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=134646844005 How to cite Complete issue Scientific Information System More information about this article Network of Scientific Journals from Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal Journal's homepage in redalyc.org Non-profit academic project, developed under the open access initiative CORPORATIVISMO HISTÓRICO NO BRASIL E NA EUROPA http://dx.doi.org/10.15448/1980-864X.2016.2.22505 Democratic Corporatism – The Italian debate during the “First Republic” (1948-1992)* Corporativismo Democrático – O debate italiano durante a “Primeira República” (1948-1992) Corporativismo demócrata – El debate italiano durante la “Primera República” (1948-1992) Marco Zaganella** Abstract: The paper intends to explore the Italian debate on corporatism after the fall of fascism, in the years of the so-called “First Republic” (1948-1992). Over this long time period, which spanned more than four decades, the debate on corporatism continued to interest the nostalgic political right represented by the Italian Social Movement (MSI), but rekindled also the minds of Catholics. In both cases, the aim was to harmonize the corporatist theory with democratic principles. During Sixties the debate on the launch of a planning policy in Italy was seized by some members of the MSI as an opportunity to revive the corporatism and find a concrete solution to “govern” the Italian economy.