Corporate alternatives to the crisis of spanish parliamentarism (1898-1936)

Abstract

Since the late nineteenth century, but especially ince the end of the Great War, the liberal parlamentary regime suffred, in most European societies, a Deep crisis of legitimaqcy. Athat time, European societies experienced a process of «corporatization» that questioned the liberal conception of society. As an alternative to the system still in forcé,corporatism was proposed, based on the organic conception of society and the representation of interest. However, we can not speale of a single model of corporate regimes, there are several variats: the tradicionalistm the catholic social, the organcist liberal and the fascist.In that seun, we can distinguish between sociak the rest of Europe, Spain experienced this social- political process in a traumatic way.