The Paradoxical Republic

Oliver Rathkolb is Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Vienna. He was Schumpeter Fellow at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University and Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago and is member of the Academic Committee for the forthcoming House of European History, European Parliament. He has published widely on Austrian and European contemporary political and cultural history, international affairs and business history. He was founding co-editor of the quarterly Medien und Zeit (Media and Time) and is currently editor of the journal Zeitgeschichte (Contemporary History).

Acknowledgements



Introduction



Chapter 1. Austrian Identity between national pride, solipsism and European patriotism

Chapter 2. Peculiarities of Austrian Democracy

Chapter 3. “Austria can beat everything, if only she wants to”: Myth and reality of Austrian economic policy since 1945

Chapter 4. Ten Chancellors, and not one a woman

Chapter 5. The newspaper tycoons of the Second Republic

Chapter 6. Neutrality and the State Treaty in a new Europe

Chapter 7. “Alles Walzer…”: the politics of art and culture as the early Second Republic’s elixir of life

Chapter 8. The Austrian model of the welfare state and inter-generational and inter-gender contracts since 1945

Chapter 9. Shadow of the Past

Chapter 10. Austria’s political future: some trends



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Index