By this principle, the state requires all citizens to belong to one of several officially designated interest groups (based generally on economic sector), which consequently have great control of their members.
[1] Societies have existed historically which exemplified corporate statism, for instance as propounded by Othmar Spann in Austria and implemented by Benito Mussolini in Italy (1922–1943), António de Oliveira Salazar's Estado Novo in Portugal (1933–1974)[2] and by the interwar Federal State of Austria.
After World War II, corporate statism influenced the rapid development of South Korea and Japan.
[3] Corporate statism most commonly manifests itself as a ruling party acting as a mediator between the workers, capitalists and other major state interests by incorporating them institutionally into the government.
One criticism is that interests, both social and economic, are so diverse that a state cannot possibly define or organize them effectively by incorporating them.