For nearly 30 years my scholarship in the field of political sociology has highlighted the rational basis of political extremism and, in particular, has employed an interest-based model of political behavior to account for the social origins of interwar fascism. In the following paper I hope to demonstrate how an interest-based account helps to explain many of the interesting questions pertaining to societal variation in interwar agrarian fascism in Belgium, Italy, and Germany.
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Brustein, W.I. (2009). An Interest-Based Examination of the Social Origins of Interwar Fascism. In: Kaspar, H., Schoen, H., Schumann, S., Winkler, J.R. (eds) Politik – Wissenschaft – Medien. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-91219-6_2
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