corporatism

“Corporatism is an ideology that advocates the organization of society by corporate groups, such as agricultural, labor, military, business, scientific, or guild associations, on the basis of their common interests. The term is derived from the Latin corpus, body.

As Wikipedia points out, this is not corporatocracy, a political system dominated by large business interests.

“Within the corporative model of Italian fascism, each corporate interest was supposed to be resolved and incorporated under the state. Much of the corporatist influence upon Italian Fascism was partly due to the Fascists’ attempts to gain endorsement by the Roman Catholic Church that itself sponsored corporatism.

“However, fascist corporatism was a top-down model of state control over the economy while the Roman Catholic Church’s corporatism favored a bottom-up corporatism, whereby groups such as families and professional groups would voluntarily work together.

“The fascist state corporatism … influenced the governments and economies of not only other Roman Catholic-majority countries
Engelbert Dollfuss Austria
António de Oliveira Salazar Portugal
Konstantin Päts and Kārlis Ulmanis non-Catholic Estonia and Latvia. …”

​Note 3/16/2026
The Catholic Church is now corporatist.