Democracy in Austria

by G nter Bischof (Editor), David M. Wineroither (Editor)

Overview

The essays in this volume are dedicated to the ups and downs of 100 years of Austrian democracy. On the occasion of the founding of the First Austrian Republic on November 12, 1918, Austrians celebrated the 100th anniversary of this event in recent Austrian history. Due to the deep divisions of the Austrian political camps (parties) democratic governance was troubled in the 1920s and ended in authoritarian rule in 1933. After World War II, the two principal political parties ÖVP (Christian conservatives) and SPÖ (Socialists), learned to work with one another in grand coalition governments and established a stable democratic regime. With the "Freedom Party" (FPÖ) turning populist, xenophobic and anti-European Union, paired with the arrival of new parties such as the environmentalist/progressive "Greens," the Austrian party system realigned in 1986 and new center-right coalitions (ÖVP and FPÖ) came to govern Austria. Today political campaigns in Austria, too, are run on social media and millennials have less faith in democracy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781608011742
Publisher:	University of New Orleans Press
Publication date:	06/03/2021
Series:	Contemporary Austrian Studies
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Günter Bischof is the Marshall Plan Professor of History and the Director of Center Austria at the University of New Orleans. David M. Wineroither is a Senior Research Advisor at National University for Public Service in Budapest and a Senior Research Fellow at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Table of Contents

Preface Günter Bischof David M. Wineroither 13

I Democracy in Trouble (1918-1933)

The Reichsrat in 1917/18 and the Beginning of the First Republic John Deak Jonathan Gumz 27

The Failed Republic, 1919-1933? Erin Hochman 45

1933: The Christian Social/German Nationalist Camps and the Collapse of the First Republic Janek Wasserman 65

II Democracy Embraced in Cold War Austria (1945-1989)

1945: The Beginning of Democracy in the Second Republic Anton Pelinka 89

Dealignment and the Rise of the Freedom Party and the Greens Reinhard Heinisch 103

III Democracy Diversity in Post-Cold War Austria (1990-2018)

Democracy in Austria in Comparative Perspective David M. Wineroither 123

From Party State to Movement Society? Conventional and Unconventional Democratic Practices in Austria, 1979-2018 Martin Dolezal 137

Millennials and Austrian Democracy Hannes Richter 157

IV Challenges and Opportunities (Post-2018)

The Use of Social Media in the 2016 Presidential Election Campaign: Reframing the 'Homeland' Story as an Inclusive Concept Karin Liebhart Petra Bernhard 177

The Quality of Democracy in Comparative Perspective David FJ Campbell 199

A Review of the Memory Year 2018 Dirk Rupnow 223

Non-Topical Essay

"The Duty to Express Value Judgments": Charles Adams Gulick, Interwar Austria, and the Question of Political Neutrality as a Scholarly Virtue Florian Wenninger 241

Roundtable: On Manfred Flügge's Stadt ohne Seek: Wien 1938 (Aufbau Verlag 2018)

Introduction Günter Bischof 275

Poetics of the "Austrian Tragedy" Michael Burri 281

A Cultural History of the Austrian Exodus after the "Anschluss" Gerhard A. Fetz 289

Manfred Flügge's Stadt ohne Seele: Wien 1938: Strolling through the Crisis Paul Frederick Lerner 295

Popular History and the Anschluss Janek Wassermann 301

IV Review Essay

Günter Bischof, Exile Studies in Austria 309

Ulrike Lunacek, The Green Party in Austria 319

V Book Reviews

Helmut Rumpler/Ulrike Harmat, eds., Die Habsburgermonarchie 1848-1918, vol. XXII: Bewältigte Vergangenheit (Austrian Academy of Sciences 2018) Gary Cohen 333

Kurt Bednar, Der Papierkrieg zwischen Washington und Wien 1917/18 (Innsbruck: Studien Verlag 2017) Roger Chickering 337

Robert Dassanowsky, Screening Transcendence: Film under Austrofascism and the Hollywood Hope 1933-1938 (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2018) Jacqueline Vansant 339

Gertrude Enderle-Burcel, ed., Berta Zuckerkandl - Gottfried Kunwald: Briefwechsel 1928-1938 (Vienna: Böhlau, 2018) Theresia Klugsberger 343

Kerstin Putz, ed., Hannah Arendt - Günther Anders: Schreib doch mal 'hard facts' über dich: Briefe 1939 bis 1975 (Munich: C.H.Beck, 2018) Jason Dawsey 351

Barbara Serloth, Von Opfern, Tätern und jenen Dazwischen: Wie Antisemitismus die Zweite Republik mitbegründete (Vienna: Mandelbau, 2016) Christian Karner 357

Paul Miller/Claire Morelon, eds., Embers of empire- continuity and rupture in the Habsburg successor states after 1918 (New York, Berghahn, 2019) Vicko Marelic 361

Kurt Luger/Franz Rest, eds., Alpenreisen: Erlebnis, Raumtransformationen, Imagination (Innsbruck: Studienverlag, 2017) Marc Landry 367

List of Authors 371