Chapter 1 Austrian Identity: Between National Pride, Solipsism and European Patriotism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Abbreviations xi
4. Preface xiii
5. Chapter 1 Austrian Identity: Between National Pride, Solipsism and European Patriotism 1
6. Chapter 2 Peculiarities of Austrian Democracy 34
7. Chapter 3 ‘Austria Can Beat Everything, If It Only Wants To’: Myth and Reality of Austrian Economic Policy since 1945 58
8. Chapter 4 Fourteen Chancellors, and One Woman 97
9. Chapter 5 Austria’s Media as a Political Test Lab: The Newspaper Tycoons of the Second Republic 159
10. Chapter 6 Neutrality and the State Treaty in a New Europe 187
11. Chapter 7 ‘Alles Walzer…’: The Politics of Art and Culture as the Early Second Republic’s Elixir of Life 209
12. Chapter 8 The Austrian Model of the Welfare State and Intergenerational and Intergender Contracts since 1945 236
13. Chapter 9 The Shadow of the Past 257
14. Chapter 10 Austria’s Political Future: Some Trends 287
15. Bibliography 305
16. Name Index 318