I am a senior manager with a multi-billion dollar consulting firm traded on the NYSE. You see our name TV if you look at the right golfer's hat. I currently consult on data management and warehousing and spent the last several years consulting to state regulatory agencies (big states, think lots of electorial votes) on various aspects of the performance measures imposed on local telephone companies in order to meet certain FCC regulatory requirements. I worked my way through graduate school as a research assistant (great job) in the business and finance area of my university, where I supported faculty research, mostly conducting analysis against public and private databases to identify patterns in the data that could be used to predict behavior, changes in property or asset values, bankruptcies, and the like. I have been published at least in a minor way, since I was more involved in corporate speaking engagements when I was active in the area.

It's fair to say I've done what a bit of what Dr. Britt claims to have done in his article if in different areas; at least the experimental design is the same. I can say with great confidence that while he probably can support what he says he found in his fourteen characteristics of Fascism in the regimes he studied, there's no basis for arguing that finding one or more of those characteristics in a regime constitutes any reliable evidence of Fascism because he has not, could not have validated the predictive qualities of his list. If what he did worked, you couldn't imagine the number of PhDs who'd have gotten rich playing the stock market.

I found a copy of Dr. Britt's book that I've purchased online. While it appears to be a vanity printing, I'm hoping I can get enough information from the dust cover to help locate him.