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.
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