Transition economies in Central and Eastern Europe: Austrian perspectives
In: Routledge studies in the European economy
In: Routledge studies in the European economy
In: Central European history, S. 1-1
ISSN: 1569-1616
"Featuring essays on topics ranging from the pandemic to antideflationist paranoia and the crisis of classical liberalism, this volume explores the various ways in which socialism-statism is the "deadliest virus" which constantly endangers the spontaneous process of social cooperation. Drawing on the Austrian school of economics, the book includes writings on the monetary policy of the European Central Bank and the economics of pandemics, economic cycles, Japanization and deflation, the crisis of classical liberalism versus anarchocapitalism, market socialism and nationalism, the relations between efficiency and ethics. This book will be of great interest to those engaged with the study of Austrian economics, economic methodology, the monetary policy of the European Central Bank, the economic theory of pandemics, the theory of banking and economic cycles, the theory of dynamic efficiency and the history of economic thought"--
In: Contemporary European history, S. 1-1
ISSN: 1469-2171
In: Bloomsbury Research Methods
This open access book introduces vignette research to new and experienced researchers by guiding them through its history, theory and underlying principles before delving into step-by-step practical guidance on how to do vignette research. Vignette research is an innovative qualitative, narrative and phenomenological research methodology that has gained international recognition, sparking interest from a wide range of individuals and institutions in global contexts. Vignettes are concise narratives, which capture human experiences in real life settings. They reveal surprising or intriguing facets and intangible moments. The experiential narratives resonate with readers and reduce the distance between the researcher and the researched. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC-BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
Blog: Saideman's Semi-Spew
I spent roughly 48 hours in Vienna, as Erin Jenne, a friend and co-author, invited me to Central European University to give a talk about my ongoing research and to help her grade her class's poster presentations. It was not my first time to Austria, as I did visit Salzburg during my Eurailpass summer long ago, but it was my first time to Vienna. Indeed, I am pretty sure Vienna was the only European capital on this side of the former Iron Curtain that I had not visited other than Athens. And I am pretty sure we will do Greece next year.I am most grateful for the chance to present our work on both legislative and defense agency oversight over democratic armed forces, as I received a bunch of really good questions from both the audience in the room and those watching online that has already caused me to add a paragraph to our essentially complete book. The ethnic conflict class was a blast to the past as Erin had teams of students compare pairs of situations, mostly across space but some over time, applying theories of ethnic conflict to understand the variation. It exercised old brain muscles, as I have mostly left that stuff behind when I moved onto civil-military relations. Speaking of ethnic conflict, CEU is in Vienna because it was kicked out of Budapest, Hungary. George Soros, bogeyman of the far right, essentially pays for CEU, so Orban objected to the school and pushed it out. It has only been a few years, but enough time has passed that the students of today don't really know the history of the prior situation. Oh, and the place we ate at after my talk had the most unusual lamp: Since both events were in the evening and my flight got pushed to the
mid-afternoon on Friday, I had time to see the city. On my first day of
tourism, I hit the two museums near my hotel, both based in a prince's
former set of palaces. So, it was a two-for--seeing some great art and
walking around a big palace or two. And, yes, not only is Vienna chock
full of massive buildings but a heap of palaces. I aimed to walk around
much of the historical center and accomplished that. Klimt's Kiss was the featuredpiece at the first Belvedere palaceThe second Belvedere palacehad Ukrainian art exhibited Oh and I found the restaurant that was recommended to me. I was looking for strudel and found it.I had plenty of time before my flight to go to two more museums--one about the history of Vienna and a modern art museum. I learned a lot about Vienna in a short period of time. That there were huge divides between the left wing city and the countryside in the early 1900s that created much tension, for example. I was surprised at how much anti-semitism was discussed, even going so far as to mention how Austrians tried to duck responsibility by considering themselves the first victims of the Nazis.The wire cutters and wire here are from when Austria and Hungary cut the fences separating the two countries in 1989 which ultimately led to the fall of the Berlin wall and the end of communism and autocracy in Eastern Europe.My timing was good as one of my fave artists had a special exhibit that started on this day I had to do some tourism. I am not an expert on art, but, yes, I know what I like. Roy Lichtenstein's art has always resonated with me, partly because of my old hobby of collecting comic books, partly because I like art when it is colorful and dynamic, and partly because he had a great sense of humor. I learned a bit more about him and that he had some sculptures.This trip to Austria was the first of two this month as I am going to spend the end of the month skiing in the Austrian Alps, my first time skiing in Europe. So, I predict more schnitzel and strudel in my near future.
In: Journal of Austrian-American history, Band 7, Heft 1, S. 9-17
ISSN: 2475-0913
Abstract
This article argues that—fully unintentionally—István Deák founded a distinctive school of history among the students he mentored. The school took inspiration from Deák's captivating style, clear argumentation, and empathetic moral capacity. In particular, however, Deák and his students sought explanations for social, cultural, and political phenomena in East Central Europe outside the constricting boundaries of the nationalism that dominated this field of history. Before Benedict Anderson, Eric Hobsbawm, and Ernest Gellner revived constructivist theories of the nation from very different perspectives in the 1980s, Deák's wary approach to nationalism and the Habsburg monarchy would become a key element that defined the school of historians that grew up around him. In doing so he and they radically reshaped our understanding of the region and its history.
In: Vienna online journal on international constitutional law: ICL-Journal, Band 17, Heft 3, S. 251-276
ISSN: 1995-5855, 2306-3734
Abstract
The design of constitutional courts usually shows a specific concern for independence from political actors and for pluralism on the bench. We argue that many institutional features of today's constitutional courts can be traced back to the Austrian Constitutional Court (the first of its kind, which celebrated 100 years in 2020) and even further still to its predecessor, the Austrian Imperial Court of Justice of 1867. Strikingly, judicial independence is to be guaranteed against the existing judiciary as well, which is why constitutional courts often stand apart from the traditional judicial bureaucracy. Pluralism on the bench is to be ensured by specific criteria of eligibility, opening the constitutional court judgeship to a wider set of candidates (eg, attorneys, professors, civil servants), but also via institutional arrangements that make it easy for outsiders to join the court in the first place (eg, by allowing to continue one's job or by not requiring residence at the court's seat). Recounting the story of the Austrian model of constitutional adjudication in an unprecedented attempt to combine Austrian legal history with the structure and process of today's constitutional courts around the world, this paper also highlights how relatively minor features of court organization contribute to the overarching goal of ensuring the independence of the court and pluralism within the court.
In: Journal of Austrian-American history, Band 7, Heft 1, S. 66-73
ISSN: 2475-0913
Abstract
This contribution discusses István Deák's influence on the rapidly expanding field of gender in Habsburg Central Europe. While Deák did not employ gender as a category of analysis in his own work, some of the categories he did analyze, including collaboration and resistance, war and retribution, and the Habsburg military, and the way he analyzed them, often with a focus on social history, helped open the way for some of his students to move into the newer field of gender and sexuality.
In: Voprosy istorii: VI = Studies in history, Band 2023, Heft 6-1, S. 222-227
In the article author analyzes similarities and differences of the three most representative cello genres: the Scala, German-Austrian and contemporary. In addition to this, a brief comparison of the three genres in terms of technique will be presented.
In: Routledge studies in the history of economics
"This book discusses key issues in economic policy in the context of the history of economic thought. Most of the current and past academic controversies in economics are, explicitly or implicitly, centered around the application and form of economic policy. This is particularly evident in the post-WWII period, with the appearance of economic policy as a distinguishable subfield, but important elements of various economic policy issues can be found throughout the history of economic thought. This book discusses various topics in economic policy - such as questions over state spending and taxation, income redistribution, and the role of money - with each chapter focusing on a particular period or major school of economic thought ranging from the 'prehistory' of economics up to the present day. Specific chapters of the volume cover the main schools of economic thought from different national and theoretical traditions, incorporating mercantilism, the Physiocratic School, the German Historical school, Marxism, the Austrian School, institutional economics, Keynesian economics, behavioral economics and more. This book will be of great interest to readers of the history of economic policy as well as history of economic thought, macroeconomics and economic history more broadly"--
In: Palgrave Studies in the History of Economic Thought
1. Invention, institutional change and economic development: from Scottish Enlightenment to the IPE -- 2. Friedrich List, contemporaries and followers: national innovation policies revisited -- 3. Transhumanism as alienation in Marx's humanist approach -- 4. Energy efficiency, productivity and the Jevons paradox -- 5. Max Weber: Science, Technology and Knowledge -- 6. Schumpeter and Austrian economics on innovation -- 7. The Neoclassical approach, its crisis and the Schumpeterian echo in the current paradigm of the economic analysis of Technological Change -- 8. Some misconceptions regarding innovation (and how reading the classics might help to overcome them) -- 9. Sustainability and technological progress -- 10. Technological unemployment as a historical debate -- 11. On the controversies on capital as a selection between paradigms -- 12. Influence of Schumpeter in the national context -- 13. Institutional problems for innovation although inventions are available -- 14. Conclusion and future research.
In: Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, Band 24, Heft 2
In diesem Beitrag untersuchen wir urbane Kulturpolitik in Österreich durch die konzeptionelle Linse der Arena. Dafür wenden wir das methodologische Instrumentarium der Situationsanalyse nach Adele CLARKE an. Mit einem Fokus auf der Dynamik kulturpolitischer Konflikte und Aushandlungsprozesse analysieren wir städtische Kulturpolitiken und damit verbundene Maßnahmen. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf einem stadtweiten Kulturprogramm in der Stadt Graz. Mittels interpretativer Analyse von Interviews und kartografischen Ansätzen versuchen wir, die kontinuierlichen und kontingenten Prozesse kulturpolitischer Aushandlung nachzuvollziehen. Zentral dafür ist das sensibilisierende Konzept des konflikthaften Konsens. Unsere Forschung ist an der Schnittstelle zwischen radikaler Demokratietheorie, die sich hier vor allem auf Chantal MOUFFE und Oliver MARCHART bezieht, und der Theorie der sozialen Welten und Arenen nach Adele CLARKE angesiedelt. Indem wir den Begriff der Konfliktualität in kulturpolitischen Akteur*innenkonstellationen und Aushandlungsprozessen operationalisieren, hoffen wir, einen Beitrag zu einer theoretisch sensibilisierten und empirisch fundierten Kulturpolitikforschung zu leisten.
In: Studies in Political Radicalization: Historical and Comparative Perspectives Series v.1
Cover -- Front matter -- Series title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction: What is Anti-Fascism? Its values, its Strengths, its Diversities -- Part One. ANTI-FASCISM IN FASCIST ITALY'S BORDERLANDS -- Chapter 1: Hate Speech -- Chapter 2: Comparison of Fascist and National Defense Discourse -- Chapter 3: Fascism, Anti-fascism, and Ethnic Engineering in the Former Austrian Littoral -- Chapter 4: Persevering on the Ramparts of the Nation: The Anti-Fascism of Educated Women, Feminists, and Activists in the Littoral in the 1920s -- Chapter 5: The Anti-Fascism of the Slovenian and Croatian Clergy in the Julian March during the Interwar Period: A View from the Vatican -- Part Two. THE DIVERSITY OF ANTI-FASCISM -- Chapter 6: The Anti-Fascism of Hans & -- Sophie Scholl: Intellectual Sources of the White Rose -- Chapter 7: The Committee against Neofascism and Racial Prejudices: Nordic Anti-Fascist Organizing and International Solidarity in the 1960s -- Chapter 8: Anti-fascism in the Land of Holy Water Blessed by the Swastika: The Case of the Slovak State -- Chapter 9: Mussolini, Vilfan, and the Slovenian Minority -- Chapter 10: From the Bauhaus to Buchenwald and to Berlin: Anti-fascism and Careerin the Life of Franz Ehrlich -- Part Three. ANTI-FASCISM AS A LEGITIMATING IDEOLOGY -- Chapter 11: Passing the Torch: The Challenges of Anti-fascist Memory Transmission through Youth Ritual and Commemoration in the GDR -- Chapter 12: Memory Practices in Slovenia through the Lens of Public Opinion -- Chapter 13: A Note about the Collective Memory of Anti-fascism since World War Two and its Revision -- Chapter 14: A Dire Warning to All Ethnic Minorities in Europe? Fascist Repression in South Tyrol and the Formation of Swedish-Speaking Anti-fascism in Finland.
In: Central European history, Band 56, Heft 3, S. 466-467
ISSN: 1569-1616