Austrian Federalism in comparative perspective
"With its ambiguous mix of weak federalist and strong centralist elements, the Austrian constitutional architecture has been subject to conflicting interpretations and claims from its very beginning. The written 1920 constitution has been paralleled by informal rules and forces making up for th...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New Orleans, LA
Uno Press
[2015]©2015, 2015
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| Series: | Contemporary Austrian Studies
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction – Austrian federalism : history, properties, change / Ferdinand Karlhofer – Topical essays – From Habsburg to communism to democracy : reflections on (non-)federalism in Central Europe / Anton Pelinka – Austria’s cooperative federalism / Peter Bußjäger – A redundant second chamber? The Austrian Bundesrat in comparative perspective / Franz Fallend – Reforming Austrian fiscal federalism : options, obstacles, and pitfalls / Margit Schratzenstaller – Federalism and administrative reform / Heinrich Neisser – Europeanization of Austrian federalism : the case of Länder rights in EU affairs / Annegret Eppler and Fritz Staudigl – Territorial cooperation in a federal framework : Austria’s involvement in European groupings of territorial cooperation / Alice Engl – Confederalizing via European integration : South Tyrol from Habsburg to the present / Günther Pallaver – Non-topical essays – Books and libraries as witnesses of the Second World War and the Holocaust in monuments : Vienna and Berlin / Moran Pearl – Austrian victims and Austria as victim in the “short” 1940s : visual representations of the Nazi past 1945-1957 / Ina Markova – Forum : World War I literature and memory – New literature on Austria-Hungary and the First World War / Samuel R. Williamson Jr. – 1914-2014 : Austria’s commemoration of World War I / Martin Eichtinger – Book reviews – Annual review of Austrian politics