This book compares contemporary Austria with other political systems and with the Austrias that existed in the past. The dynamism of the changes taking place in Austria can be described and analyzed with this double focus of comparison.
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This book is intended to reflect the current state of a discipline-political science. However, it is also to be a contribution to the further development of this discipline. It... Læs mere
In 2005, Austria celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of its liberation from the Nazi regime and the fiftieth anniversary of the State Treaty that ended the occupation and returned full sovereignty to the country
The years of Chancellors Dollfuss and Schuschnigg's authoritarian governments (1933/34-1938) have been denounced as "Austrofascism" from the left, or defended as a Christian corporate state ("Stondestaat") from the right
Austria does not often make political headlines. It has at least twice in recent years: in 1986, when the "Waldheim Affair" was debated worldwide, and in 1999, when the Austrian Freedom Party (FPOe) under Joerg Haider received 27 percent of the vote in national elections
Political, economic, social, and cultural modernization dramatically transformed twentieth-century Austria
Franz Vranitzky, the banker turned politician, was chancellor during the ten years (1986-96) when the world dramatically changed in the aftermath of the cold war
In his pathbreaking book, Leadership, James MacGregor Burns defines a kind of leadership with an indistinguishable personal impact on society
Perhaps no country benefitted more from the Marshall Plan for assistance in reconstruction of Europe after World War II than Austria
Es werden vor allem zwei von Lazarsfelds Forschungsarbeiten und deren Publikation in Buchform als zentrale Werke vorgestellt: „Die Arbeitslosen von Marienthal“ als Beispiel für den auch politisch motivierten Übergang seines Forschungsinteresses von der Psychologie zur Soziologie;