Austro-corporatism: past, present, future

Abstract

"Corporatism was unpopular in the Europe of the past decade. During a time of neo-conservative resurgence in both the United States and the United Kingdom, macroeconomic steering and statist centralism and regulation were in disfavor. However, Austria's unique Sozialpartnerschaft, its famed system of tripartite informal and formal labor, business, and state cooperation, continued to prosper in spite of such powerful Anglo-American trends. Austro-Corporatism is the fourth volume in the interdisciplinary Contemporary Austrian Studies series. This effort in particular reflects the uniqueness of Austrian corporatism, and looks at its deep historical roots from a comparative continental European perspective. The contributors include specialists on Austria from all parts of the world, making this a truly international effort. Andrei Markovits provides the larger European context for this analysis of Austrian corporatism. Emmerich Talos and Bernhard Kittel review the historical development of Austrian corporatism, going back to its nineteenth-century roots. Randall Kindley studies the institutional framework of Austrian corporatism, particularly its post-World War II reincarnation. Hans Seidel looks at the subject from a neo-Keynesian economic perspective, and Ferdinand Karlhofer at the chances of its survival in a changing international environment. Jonathan Petropoulos presents a fascinating biographical study of Nazi art plunderer Kajetan Muhlmann, and David McIntosh compares Eisenhower's policy vis-a-vis the small friendly countries of Lebanon, Costa Rica, and Austria. A special forum looks at the model character and appeal of tripartite Austrian cooperation among its new eastern democratic neighbors: the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, and Slovenia. A number of reviews of Austrian politics in 1994 complete the volume. Austro-Corporatism will be of intense interest to foreign policy analysts, historians, and scholars concerned with the unique elements in Central European politics."-- Back cover.

Contents

Austrian Corporatism in Comparative Perspective / Andrei S. Markovits -- Roots of Austro-Corporatism: Institutional Preconditions and Cooperation Before and After 1945 / Emmerich Talos and Bernhard Kittel -- The Evolution of Austria's Neo-Corporatist Institutions / Randall W. Kindley -- Social Partnership and Austro-Keynesianism / Hans Seidel -- The Present and Future State of Social Partnership / Ferdinand Karlhofer -- Introduction / Birgitt Haller -- Social Partnership in the Czech Republic / Lubomir Brokl and Zdenka Mansfeldova -- Social Partnership in Slovakia / Monika Cambalikova -- Social Partnership in Slovenia / Igor Luksic -- Social Partnership in Hungary / Sandor Kurtan -- The Importance of the Second Rank: The Case of the Art Plunderer Kajetan Muhlmann / Jonathan Petropoulos -- In the Shadow of Giants: U.S. Policy Toward Small Nations: The Cases of Lebanon, Costa Rica, and Austria in the Eisenhower Years / David McIntosh -- Introduction -- "What right?" / Gunter Bischof -- Student Corporations in Austria and the Right: A Historical Outline / Michael Gehler -- Right-Wing Press in Austria / Reinhold Gartner -- How the Austrian People's Party Dealt with the Holocaust, Anti-Semitism and National Socialism after 1945 / Walter Manoschek -- The Social Democratic "memoire volontaire" and Coming to Terms with the Legacy of National Socialism in Austria / Richard Mitten -- The FPÖ and the Right / Max Riedlspeger -- Handbuch des Osterreichischen Rechtsextremismus, Stiftung Dokumentationsarchiv des osterreichischen Widerstandes / Peter Pulzer -- Michael Gehler and Rolf Steininger, eds., Osterreich und die Europaische Integration 1945-1993. Aspekte einer wechselvollen Entwicklung / Alan S. Milward -- Klaus Fiesinger, Ballhausplatz-Diplomatie 1945-1949 and Michael Gehler, ed., Karl Gruber: Reden, und Dokumente 1945-1953 / Wolfgang Krieger -- Gabriele Anderl and Walter Manoschek, Gescheiterte Flucht. Der judische 'Kladovo-Transport' auf dem Weg nach Palestina, 1939-1942 and Walter Manoschek, 'Serbien ist judenfrei:' Militarische Besatzungspolitik und Judenvernichtung in Serbien 1941/42 / Detlef K. Vogel -- Ernst Bruckmuller, Osterreichbewusstsein im Wandel: Identitat und Selbstverstandnis in den 90er Jahren / William T. Bluhm -- David F. Good, Margarete Grandner, Mary Jo Maynes, eds., Women in Austria. Essays on Their Situation in the 20th Century / Erika Thurner -- H. Pierre Secher, Bruno Kreisky, Chancellor of Austria: A Political Biography / Anton Pelinka -- Anton Pelinka, Christian Schaller, and Paul Luif, Ausweg EG? Innenpolitische Motive einer aussenpolitischen Umorientierung / Michael G. Huelshoff -- Kurt Richard Luther and Wolfgang C. Muller, eds., Politics in Austria: Still A Case of Consociationalism? / Max Riedlsperger -- Survey of Austrian Politics: 1994 / Rainer Nick.