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Title

The authoritarian state : an essay on the problem of the Austrian State / translated from the German by Ruth Hein ; edited with an introduction by Gilbert Weiss ; historical commentary on the period by Erika Weinzierl.

Author

Voegelin, Eric, 1901-1985.

Publication

Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [1999], ©1999.

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Additional Authors

• Hein, Ruth.
• Weiss, Gilbert.

Description

396 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

• Published in Vienna in 1936, The Authoritarian State by Eric Voegelin has remained virtually unknown to the public until now. Sales of the German edition were halted following the Nazi invasion of Austria in 1938, and the entire printing was later destroyed by wartime bombing. In this volume, Voegelin offers a critical examination of the most prominent European theories of state and constitutional law of the period while providing a political and historical analysis of the Austrian situation.
• He discusses the dismissal of Parliament in 1933, the civil war, the murder of Federal Chancellor Dollfuss, the adoption of the "Authoritarian Constitution" of 1934, and the predicament of being sandwiched between Hitler and Mussolini.

Series Statement

• The collected works of Eric Voegelin ; v. 4
• Voegelin, Eric, 1901-1985. Works. 1989 ; v. 4.

Uniform Title

Autoritäre Staat. English

Alternative Title

Autoritäre Staat.

Subjects

• Austria > Politics and government > 1918-1938
• Constitutional history > Austria
• Authoritarianism > Austria

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Historical Commentary on the Period / Erika Weinzierl -- Pt. I. "Total" and "Authoritarian" as Symbols. 1. The Elements of Meaning Contained in the Symbols "Total" and "Authoritarian" -- Pt. II. The Austrian Constitutional Problem after 1848. 2. The Foundation of Austrian Constitutional Theory: Baron Eotvos. 3. The Constitutional Situation of 1848-1849. 4. The Cycles of the Constitutions. 5. The Founding of the State in 1918-1920 -- Pt. III. The Authoritarian Constitution since 1933. 6. Kelsen's Pure Theory of Law and the Problem of an Austrian Theory of the State. 7. The Constitutional Transition (March 1933 to May 1934). 8. The Core of the Authoritarian State. 9. The Authoritarian Chambers. 10. The Relationship of the Executive to the Agencies of the Federal and Provincial Legislatures. 11. Emergency Powers Granted the Administration and Their Control. 12. The Directly Democratic and Constitutional Mechanisms.
• App. The Changes in the Ideas on Government and Constitution in Austria since 1918.

ISBN

0826212352 (alk. paper)

LCCN

98024586

OCLC

• 40347270
• ocm40347270

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries