The paradoxical republic
Subtitle: Austria, 1945-2005
By: Oliver Rathkolb ; translated from the German by Otmar Binder.
Edition: English-language ed.
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781845456399
Subjects: Political culture -- Austria -- History; National characteristics, Austrian; Austria -- History -- 1955-; Austria -- Politics and government -- 1945-; Austria -- Social conditions; Austria -- Economic conditions -- 1945-
Work titles: Paradoxe Republik.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Austrian identity between national pride, solipsism, and European patriotism; title: Peculiarities of Austrian democracy; title: "Austria can beat everything, if only she wants to" : myth and reality of Austrian economic policy since 1945; title: Ten chancellors, and not one a woman; title: The newspaper tycoons of the Second Republic; title: Neutrality and the state treaty in a new Europe; title: "Alles Walzer..." : the politics of art and culture as the early Second Republic's elixir of life; title: The Austrian model of the welfare state and inter-generational and inter-gender contracts since 1945; title: Shadow of the past; title: Austria's political future : some trends.