Edited by Kurt Richard Luther who is Senior Lecturer in European Politics at LancashirePolytechnic; and Wolfgang C. MUlier is Reader in Political Science at the University of Vienna.

• Chapter 1 Consociationalism and the Austrian Political System, Kurt Richard Luther, Wolfgang C. Müller; Chapter 2 The Decline of ‘Lager Mentality’ and the New Model of Electoral Competition in Austria, Fritz Plasser, Peter A. Ulram, Alfred Grausgruber; Chapter 3 Consociationalism, Part Ies and the Party System, Kurt Richard Luther; Chapter 4 Austrian Governmental Institutions: Do They Matter?, Wolfgang C. Müller; Chapter 5 A Farewell to Corporatism, Peter Gerlich; Chapter 6 Changing Priorities in Austrian Economic Policy, Volkmar Lauber; Chapter 7 Austria in the International Arena: Neutrality, European Integration and Consociationalism, D. Mark Schultz; Chapter 8 Austrian Consociationalism: Victim of its Own Success?, Kurt Richard Luther, Wolfgang C. Müller;