Political Culture in the Lands of the Former Habsburg Empire: Authoritarian and Parliamentary Traditions

Bárány, George

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“…83 Rašín, Tomáš G. Masaryk, Edvard Beneš, Milan R. Štefánik, Vavro Šrobar, and the others who joined in founding Czechoslovakia were all committed Czech and Slovak nationalists, but they considered much of the state administration developed under the monarchy as not simply the instrumentalities of the emperor or the old Austrian and Hungarian governments, but their own. 84…”

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Nationalist Politics and the Dynamics of State and Civil Society in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1867–1914

Cohen

2007

Cent Eur Hist

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Historians have conventionally depicted the Habsburg Monarchy as the largest modern European imperial polity to disappear from the map because of its inability to accommodate the national aspirations of its peoples. It is the locus classicus for the failure of an old-fashioned dynastic empire to develop among its subjects a broader civic identity and loyalty to the state to counter the rise of nationalist demands for self-government. For later historians as well as many contemporary observers of the frequent internal crises after the 1890s, this was already a failed state even before World War I brought on the tragic denouement. In this perspective the monarchy's participation in the war was not a purely exogenous factor that led eventually to the polity's demise. Most scholars have agreed that the monarchy's entry into the war came largely because of its need to preserve its status as a Great Power, defend its position in the Balkans, and counter the challenges of its own nationalist political movements, some of them allied with political forces beyond the borders. Older western European and North American histories also tended to view nationalist politics in Habsburg central Europe, in contrast to western European experience, as an intolerant and ultimately anti-democratic force that helped doom hopes for parliamentary democracy both under the monarchy and in the post-1918 successor states.

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Nationalist Politics and the Dynamics of State and Civil Society in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1867–1914

Cohen

2007

Cent Eur Hist

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Where is the class bias attenuation? The consequences of adopting compulsory voting in Austria-Hungary in 1907

Kouba

2021

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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Adopting compulsory voting (CV) legislation is expected to produce near-universal turnout, which in turn is assumed to iron out class-based differences in political influence and representation. The article traces the historical process generating the sequential adoption of CV in 8 of the 17 Cisleithanian crownlands of the Austro-Hungarian empire in 1907 and 1911, and leverages a difference-in-differences (DiD) method to estimate its causal effect on turnout and voting patterns in elections to the Imperial Council. Exploiting unique data on the turnout of citizens based on their occupational categories, it further examines whether the adoption of CV attenuated class bias in turnout. Despite a large boost to turnout, CV neither increased support for parties representing the working classes, nor attenuated the class bias in turnout.

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The future of economic relations Russia and Bulgaria in the beginning of the XX century: the view of russian diplomats

Kryuchkov,

Kudryavtsev

2024

HFAS

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Introduction. The article is devoted to the history of relations between Bulgaria and Russia at the beginning of the 20th century. The two states were interested in joint trade and economic development. This issue received a lot of attention in Russian periodicals. The press pointed out great benefits from the economic relations of the two states. Bulgaria at this time was a country with a rapidly developing economy. This state aroused the interest of many European powers. Diplomatic missions occupied the main place in assessing the possibilities of Russian penetration into Bulgaria. Materials and methods. The sources of the article are related to diplomatic materials from the beginning of the 20th century: reports of secretaries of the diplomatic agency in Sofia, reports of the vice-consul in Bulgaria, diaries and memoirs. The main focus is on assessing trading opportunities. When analyzing sources, the author used traditional methods of objectivity and a critical approach, taking into account the subjective nature of these materials. Results. Diplomats believed that Russian commercial and industrial circles, given the rapid development of the domestic market, showed little interest in Bulgaria. Russian entrepreneurs did not have a clear idea of the needs of the Bulgarian consumer, of the Bulgarian companies with which they could conduct trade operations, or of their creditworthiness. Unlike representatives of other countries, especially Austria-Hungary, Russian business made no efforts to develop trade with the Bulgarians. Russian entrepreneurs did not have their own traveling salesmen who traveled around Bulgaria studying the demand of the local population. Interest in Bulgaria was weak because Russian business was associated with domestic economic development. All this had a very negative impact on the development of bilateral trade. Conclusion. In the current conditions, it was not Russia, but Austria-Hungary that played the main role in the development of the Bulgarian economy. This also determined the political sympathies of the Bulgarian authorities. St. Petersburg understood this problem. However, political complications on the peninsula and the outbreak of the First World War did not allow this creative work to be completed, which could have led to a significant increase in the volume of economic relations between Russia and Bulgaria.

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Political Culture in the Lands of the Former Habsburg Empire: Authoritarian and Parliamentary Traditions

Cited by 3 publications

References 20 publications

Nationalist Politics and the Dynamics of State and Civil Society in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1867–1914

Nationalist Politics and the Dynamics of State and Civil Society in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1867–1914

Where is the class bias attenuation? The consequences of adopting compulsory voting in Austria-Hungary in 1907

The future of economic relations Russia and Bulgaria in the beginning of the XX century: the view of russian diplomats

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