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Article: Austria: Out of the Shadow of the Past.(Review)(Brief Article)
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- The Historian
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- March 22, 2000
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Austria: Out of the Shadow of the Past. By Anton Pelinka. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1998. Pp. i, 256. $54.95.)
Observers of Austrian politics and society have long pointed to unique institutions that gave the postwar Alpine nation the image of a blessed island of tranquillity. Austria was known as a Catholic country; as a place where the consociational politics of the two great parties (the Social Democrats and the conservative Austrian People's Party) provided for stability; and where a high standard of living was ensured by a generous welfare state and social partnership between the unions and Austrian business. Austria: Out of the Shadow of the Past is about ...