Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Fritz Plasser and Günter Bischof - Topical essays - I. Personality and leadership - The political personality of Wolfgang Schüssel / Peter Gerlich - Rollercoaster : Schüssel's electoral (mis)fortunes and the dynamics of public approval / Fritz Plasser and Peter A. Ulram - Schüssel and the media : an ambivalent relationship / Günther Lengauer - Making omelets and breaking eggs? Schüssel's leadership in government and party / David Wineroither - Governing with right-wing populists and managing the consequences : Schüssel and the FPÖ / Kurt Richard Luther - The politics of asymmetry : (non)corporatist policy making, 2000-2006 / Ferdinand Karlhofer - Unremarkably remarkable, remarkably unremarkable : Schüssel as Austria's foreign policymaker in a time of transition / Reinhard Heinisch - II. Policies and policy changes - Wolfgang Schüssel and Austrian foreign policy / Otmar Höll - The Schüssel years and the European Union / Heinrich Neisser - Reinventing tradition and the politics of history : Schüssel's restitution and commemoration policies / Günter Bischof and Michael S. Maier - Economic policies and economic change / Johannes Ditz - Schüssel and the welfare state / Max Preglau - The demise of "Minoritenplatz-Schleicherei" : eighty-four month of Wende higher education policy in Austria / Josef Leidenfrost - Legacies of the Schüssel years / Anton Pelinka - Forum - "Disturbing creativity?" : Austrian literature, studies, and cultural politics / Maria-Regina Kecht - Austrian and German history and literature / David S. Luft - Austrian-Jewish studies? / Leslie Morris - Disturbing creativity : phantom pains, arts, and cultural policies in postwar Austria / Andreas Stadler - Book reviews - Annual review - Austria 2008.