Kevin Passmore's research while affiliated with Cardiff University and other places

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To treat fascism as a social movement in a transnational context is to buck the trend in studies of so-called ‘generic fascism’. The purpose of the latter is to derive a ‘model’, ‘definition’, or ‘ideal-type’ of fascism from observation of its primary ‘case’, the Fascist movement in Italy, perhaps supplemented with features of German National Socia...

Citations

... Kevin Passmore argued that 'fascism theories share a weakness of models' which 'harden concepts that were contested and fluid in practical politics'. 15 David Roberts found that models often 'delimit their questions-and thus the range of frequencies' that the bounded conceptual categories may capture. 16 Michael Mann criticised models of generic fascism as 'idealistic' and seriously lacking in awareness of the deeper power relations and organisations. ...