Politics in Austria Still a Case of Consociationalism

First Published in 1992. This is a collection of eight articles looking at consociationalism in the Austrian political system. Areas covered are the decline of the 'Lager Mentality', parties and the party system, governmental institutions, changing priorities in Austrian economic policy, Austria in the European arena and the success of consociationalism.

Chapter 1 Consociationalism and the Austrian Political System, Kurt Richard Luther, Wolfgang C. Müller; Chapter 2 The Decline of ‘Lager Mentality’ and the New Model of Electoral Competition in Austria, Fritz Plasser, Peter A. Ulram, Alfred Grausgruber; Chapter 3 Consociationalism, Part Ies and the Party System, Kurt Richard Luther; Chapter 4 Austrian Governmental Institutions: Do They Matter?, Wolfgang C. Müller; Chapter 5 A Farewell to Corporatism, Peter Gerlich; Chapter 6 Changing Priorities in Austrian Economic Policy, Volkmar Lauber; Chapter 7 Austria in the International Arena: Neutrality, European Integration and Consociationalism, D. Mark Schultz; Chapter 8 Austrian Consociationalism: Victim of its Own Success?, Kurt Richard Luther, Wolfgang C. Müller;

Edited by Kurt Richard Luther who is Senior Lecturer in European Politics at LancashirePolytechnic; and Wolfgang C. MUlier is Reader in Political Science at the University of Vienna.