Corporatism
Corporatism (also called Corporativism) is a political system in which representation is given to single workers' or professionals' categories.
In italian Fascism the Corporativismo was and adding representative parliamentar corpus. The corporative deputees were admitted to the "Camera dei Fasci e delle Corporazioni", one of the two Chambers (the other one being the Senato).
Corporations were in medieval Italy the "borghesia", the middle-class social entity that expressed in facts a sort of control over the king's politics and policies. Thery were then collected in "Corporazioni di Arti e Mestieri".
Some elements of corporatism can be found still existing today, for example in the ILO Conference or in the Economic and Social Committee of the European Union.
The term Corporatism is also used to describe the tendency in politics to consider the interests of corporations above those of the individual.