This study examines a hitherto little researched variety of anti-egalitarian anti-Western and
authoritarian state theory. Heinrich W. Herrfahrdt's »Arbitrational Leadership« was intended to
transform the liberal constitutional state into an authoritarian corporative state by means of
minor interventions in the state's institutional structure. However it not only provides
alarmingly topical illustrative and reflective material for contemporary constitutional law
doctrine because of its detailed state restructuring instructions but also because the
polyglot Herrfahrdt already made extensive international comparisons and placed a special focus
on Japan and China.
