Book Description
Explains the development of representative government is Austria and the electoral reform of 1907. Also looks at the problems of the reform and its impact on the election of 1907.
Author : William Alexander Jenks
Publisher : New York, Columbia U. P
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 18,37 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Elections
ISBN : 9780231931083
Explains the development of representative government is Austria and the electoral reform of 1907. Also looks at the problems of the reform and its impact on the election of 1907.
Author : Henry Thomson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,62 MB
Release : 2015
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Leaders of undemocratic regimes allow elections in order to co-opt powerful groups in society and secure their own grip on power. However, they do not allow fair elections. They manipulate the electoral system in order to over-represent the geographic areas, and the groups within them, to whom they wish to allocate political power. This is done via the mechanism of malapportionment, by which electoral districts in the privileged areas are assigned a greater share of legislative seats than their share of the population. Analyzing the introduction of universal male suffrage in Austria in 1907, I show that this reform did not lead to universal, equal suffrage and that malapportionment under authoritarian regimes does not run exclusively along an urban-rural cleavage. Instead, reform resulted in an electoral system which perpetuated the under-representation of ethnic minorities in the lower house of the Reichsrat and the over-representation of the rural German-speaking population and urban Polish elites. This solved the regime's problem of controlling urban unrest by satisfying demands for electoral reform, while at the same time maintaining the predominant political position of German and Polish groups in Cislethania via more subtle manipulation of the electoral system.
Author : William Alexander Jenks
Publisher :
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 1950
Category : Elections
ISBN :
In 1815 the forces of nationalism and democracy which had been propagated in Europe during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic years were halted momentarily by a coalition of European powers which included Metternich's Austria. A hundred years later the Habsburg monarchy found itself involved in its last fateful struggle with these forces. This study has as its purpose the description of one of the last efforts made to reconcile nationalism and democracy with Habsburg tradition in the period preceding the final collapse of the empire. -- Preface.
Author : Ronald J. DiCenzo
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 48,78 MB
Release : 1964
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Author : Andrei S. Markovits
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674603127
Throughout the nineteenth century the province of Galicia was noted for political conflicts and the cultural vibrancy of its three major national groups: Poles, Ukrainians, and Jews. This volume brings together for the first time eleven essays on various aspects of the last seventy-five years of Austrian Galicia's existence.
Author : Robert A. Kann
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 40,71 MB
Release : 1980-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520042063
Describes, surveys, and discusses the major historical aspects of the Habsburg Empire - diplomatic, political, institutional, socioeconomic, and cultural.
Author : Andrew McLaren Carstairs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 12,4 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1135026785
This book provides a concise and accessible account of the historical experience of European parliaments – why different electoral systems were adopted, how they have functioned, how they have affected the development of political parties, and in what respects they have been found over time to be either suitable or unsatisfactory. The book begins with a summary of the main electoral systems, analysing and re-assessing each in the light of historical experience. The core of the book, however, is a country-by-country account of the systems which have operated in each of the main West European countries, in the context of their own constitutional, political and social developments.
Author : Jakub S. Beneš
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 11,34 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 0198789297
This book tells the story of how nationalism spread among industrial workers in central Europe in the twentieth century, addressing the far-reaching effects, including the democratization of Austrian politics, the collapse of internationalist socialist solidarity before World War I, and the twentieth-century triumph of Social Democracy in much of Europe.
Author : Andrew Gladding Whiteside
Publisher : Springer
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 18,97 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9401504687
This book is an account of the emergence of a National Socialist party from the German nationalist labor movement in the multi national Austrian empire. Made up of unions chiefly concerned with protecting workers of German nationality from the competition of cheap Czech labor, the German nationalist labor movement was strongest in Bohemia, where the rivalry between Czechs and Germans in the labor market was most acute. Much of Austrian industry was in northern Bohemia, and as it expanded in the latter half of the nineteenth century large riumbers of Czechs moved from the countryside into the industrial centers. Many German workers were displaced by the Czech immigrants, who were accustomed to lower standards of living and therefore willing to accept lower pay. The anger of the German workers developed into an intense hatred of the Czechs, the Czechs resented German domination, and as a result of the mutual enmity, the Socialist international unions split into German and Czech sections. Some of these became separate German and Czech nationalist unions. Other German nationalist unions grew out of the protective associations that were organized by gro. ups of German workers against the Czech danger. Around the turn of the century the leaders of some of the more militant German nationalist unions decided that they could further the members' interests more effectively if the unions were affiliated with a political party under their own control: collaboration with radical nationalists had proved disappointing.
Author : Rick Kuhn
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 33,59 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0252073525
The first comprehensive English-language Grossman biography