Offers an analysis of Austria's five parliamentary parties, with particular emphasis on changes to the Social Democratic Party and the Austrian People's Party. The text also provides a detailed analysis of Haider's Freedom Party, the right-wing populist movement.

Offering an analysis of Austria's five parliamentary parties, this book lays particular emphasis on changes to the Social Democratic Party and the Austrian People's Party. These parties are distinguished by their enormous relative size, organizational density, and penetration of areas of life normally considered beyond the legitimate scope of political parties. The text also provides a detailed analysis of Haider's Freedom Party, Western Europe's electorally most successful right-wing populist movement. The authors examine the structure and operation of the Austrian party system at the federal level, and offer a systematic consideration of the provincial, or "Land" party systems.