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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION -- Austria in McWorld -- SECTION I: Setting the Stage -- I'm Made for America from Head to Toe (The Project for a New American Century) -- The Americanization of Vienna -- SECTION II: Business/Finance -- Travel Accounts from the United States and their Influence on Taylorism, Fordism and Productivity in Austria -- The Americanization of Austrian Business -- The Impact of U.S. Management on Austrian Management Cultures in Tourism -- The Americanization of Austrian Banking and Finance -- SECTION III: Culture -- American Jazz in Ernst Krenek's opera Jonny spielt auf -- Belonging to a Never - Never Land? Television and Consumer Modernity in Postwar Austria -- Hollywood Movies, Significant Events and the Alteration of Styles and Worldviews -- American Painting: The New York Museum of Modern Art's International Program in Austria -- Wo ist Daheim?-America in Narrative Identity Constructions of Contemporary Austrian Literature -- SECTION IV: Society/Gender -- Americanizing / Westernizing Austrian Women: Three Scenarios from the 1950s to the 1970s -- From Patriarchy to New Fatherhood? Private Life and the Process of Modernization in Twentieth-Century Austria -- SECTION V: Politics/Political Culture -- Austria's Postwar Occupation, the Marshall Plan, and Secret Rearmament as "Westernizing Agents" 1945-1968 -- The Impact of American Scholarship on Austrian Political Science: The Making of a Discipline -- Assessing the Americanization of Austrian Politics and Politicians -- REVIEW ESSAYS -- The Ancient Hatred: Postwar Austrian Anti-Semitism -- A Homely Picture Book? -- The Westernization of Austria -- Unmastered Pasts: Czechs, Sudeten Germans and Austrians -- BOOK REVIEWS -- Holger Afflerbach, DerDreibund: Europäische Grossmacht- und Allianzpolitik vor dem Ersten Weltkrieg

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Illustrations -- List of Acronyms -- Preface -- 1 AUSTRIA'S COMPLEX IMAGE -- Basic Features -- Changing Identities -- 2 POLITICAL CULTURE -- Nation Building Through Consociationalism -- The Forces of Change and Transformation -- 3 THE CONSTITUTIONAL STRUCTURE -- The Constitution -- The Legislature, Executive, and Judiciary -- States and Municipalities -- Conclusion -- 4 POLITICAL PARTIES, ELECTIONS, AND INTEREST GROUPS -- Political Parties and Elections -- Interest Groups, Corporatism, and Media -- Conclusion -- 5 THE END OF THE SUBSOCIETIES -- A Farewell to Catholicism -- A Farewell to Socialism -- Conclusion -- 6 THE ECONOMY: SUCCESS AND DEPENDENCE -- 7 A FAREWELL TO CORPORATISM? -- 8 A FAREWELL TO NEUTRALITY -- 9 AUSTRIA'S DARKER SIDE -- Adolf Hitler, the Austrian Catholic -- The Roots Are Fertile Still -- Neo-Nazism and/or Right Populism? -- 10 AUSTRIA'S FUTURE -- The Westernization of a Central European Democracy -- Crises and Integration -- Old Cleavages, New Cleavages -- A Different Austria? -- References -- Index.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- 1. On Leadership -- 2. Jaruzelski I: On the Gravity of one - of any - Political Decision -- 3. On the Illusion of Democratic Leadership -- 4. An Impossible Encounter - The First -- 5. On the Tendency to Ban Machiavelli to Hell -- 6. On the Limits of Idealism -- 7. Charisma -- 8. On the Attempts to Tame a Myth -- 9. On the Skepticism Toward Too Much Democracy -- 10. On the Unavoidability of Lying -- 11. On the Misery of Collaboration -- 12. On the Presumption of Objectivity -- 13. On the Ambiguity of Difference -- 14. On the Amorality of Foreign Policy -- 15. On the Logic of Leninism -- 16. On the True Nature of Personal Leadership -- 17. On the Necessity of Limiting Evil -- 18. On the Longing for William Tells and Robin Hoods -- 19. On the Necessity of Becoming a Parvenu -- 20. An Impossible Encounter - The Second -- 21. On the Democratic Dissolution of Politics in General -- 22. On the Transformation of the People into the Marketplace -- 23. The Cockpit -- 24. On the Possibility of Intellectual and Moral Leadership -- 25. Jaruzelski II: On the Arbitrary Nature of Historical Perception -- 26. Bibliography -- Index of Persons

Democracy Indian Style explores the social and cultural factors underlying India's successful democracy by describing and analyzing the life of Subhas Chandra Bose and his impact on India before and after independence. As a nation India is very old. Its political culture has deep roots in India's pre-colonial history, but it is also a product of Western-style democracy, which has shaped and even created the nation

Die extremen Linken und die extremen Rechten sind einander in manchen Anliegen näher, als ihnen lieb sein kann. Wo sie einander bekämpfen oder in Gegnerschaft zur EU stehen, erzielen sie doch immer wieder unbeabsichtigt gemeinsame tagespolitische Erfolge. In seinem neuen Buch erklärt Anton Pelinka, warum dies so ist und welche Auswirkungen dies auf die Europäische Union hat. Die Geschichte der europäischen Integration ist voll von Beispielen dafür, dass rechte und linke Extremisten in nicht abgesprochener Allianz die Vertiefung Europas zu verhindern versuchten ́€" nur zu oft mit Erfolg. Das Scheitern der Europäischen Verteidigungsgemeinschaft 1954 und des Europäischen Verfassungsvertrages 2005 sind prominente Beispiele dafür. Ausgehend von dieser Evidenz zeigt das Buch, dass die auf den ersten Blick überraschende, gegen die EU gerichtete Frontstellung kein Zufall ist: Vom Kriegspatriotismus des Jahres 1914 über einen auf der extremen Linken als Antizionismus getarnten Antisemitismus bis hin zur Ablehnung der Ergebnisoffenheit der liberalen Demokratie reicht die Kette der Gemeinsamkeiten, die rechten und linken Extremismus verbinden.

Internationally established authors describe and analyze the most important categories of prejudice: anti-Semitism, sexism, racism, religious prejudice, class prejudice, as well as prejudice against age, illness, disability. The German translation of the Handbook of Prejudice, which was published on behalf of the Sir Peter Ustinov Institute and deals with ways of researching and fighting prejudice is now expanded with new and topical themes such as anti-Gypsyism and Islamophobia.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Tables -- PART I: THEORETICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- INTRODUCTION TO PART I -- 1. Need-Satisfaction and -Frustration Models -- Drive Frustration and Individual Hostility -- Social Motives as Determinants of Attraction -- Social Motives as Determinants of Hostility -- Cognitive Factors -- The Argument in Summary -- 2. Cognitive-Consistency Models -- The Balance Model -- The Congruity Model -- The Dissonance Model -- Conclusions About Consistency Pressure -- 3. Cognitive Motivation in Social Behavior -- Conformity in Physical Judgments -- Opinion Conformity -- Competitive Coalition Formation -- Level of Aspiration -- Affiliation Tendencies -- Assessment of Cognitive Hypotheses -- PART II: Empirical Explorations -- INTRODUCTION TO PART II -- 4. The Reaction to Boastfulness -- Procedure and Measures -- Public Evaluations -- Assessment -- 5. Attraction and Legitimate Conceit -- Procedure and Measures -- Validity of Brown's Ability -- Quantitative Evaluations -- Qualitative Evaluations -- Status Identification -- Assessment -- 6. Valid Boastfulness and Invalid Self-Depreciation -- Procedure and Measures -- The Interviewer's Professional Standing -- Quantitative Evaluation -- Qualitative Data -- 7. The Reaction to Positive and Negative Biases -- Procedure and Measures -- Identification of Negative Bias -- Quantitative Evaluations of a Reportedly Unat tractive Person -- Quantitative Evaluations of a Reportedly Unat tractive Person -- Symmetry in Cognitive Validation -- Identification of Positive Bias -- Quantitative Evaluations of a Reportedly Attractive Person -- Qualitative Evaluations of a Reportedly Attractive Person -- Assessment -- Change Toward a Valid Evaluation -- Changes in Attractiveness -- 8. Cognitive Validation and Self-Evaluation -- Procedure and Measures