Continuity within Discontinuity: Habsburg Legacies, Interwar Democratic Failure, and the Rise of Austrian Consociationalism

• In Event: Political Development in Global Perspective

Brief Overview

This paper explores how aspects of consociational political institutions and practices were maintained in interwar Austria, despite the failure of democracy, thereby facilitating the emergence of successful consociationalism after World War II.

Author

• Philip J. Howe, Adrian College