Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
TOPICAL ESSAYS
Oliver Rathkolb, The Austrian Voter in Historical Perspective
Fritz Plasser and Peter A. Ulram, Electoral Change in Austria
Christoph Hofinger, Gunther Ogris, and Eva Zeglovits,
It Ain't Over 'til It's Over: Electoral Volatility in Austria
from the 1970s through 2006
Herbert Dachs, Regional Elections in Austria from 1986 to 2006
Kurt Richard Luther, Electoral Strategies and Performance
of Austrian Right-Wing Populism, 1986-2006
Gunther Lengauer, Framing Campaigns: The Media
and Austrian Elections
Fritz Plasser and Gilg Seeber, Austrian Electoral Behavior
in International Comparison

FORUM
Austrian Experts Interpret the National Elections
of October 1, 2006
Rudolf Bretschneider, Political Discontent, Negative
Campaigning and an Overrated Monster: A Short
Comment on the Austrian Parliamentary Elections of 2006
Peter Gerlich, Europeanization in Disguise
The Changing Austrian Voter
Imma Palme, Did the o;VP Lose, or Did the SPo; Win the
2006 National Parliamentary Election?
Anton Pelinka, Who Is the Winner?: The Strategic
Dilemma of "the People's Choice"
Manfred Prisching, The Conservative Turn to Socialism

NON-TOPICAL ESSAYS
Peter Ruggenthaler, A New Perspective from Moscow
Archives: Austria and the Stalin Notes of
Thomas Fischer, The Birth of the N+NA: Austrian
and Swiss Foreign Policy in the CSCE

REVIEW ESSAYS
Matthew Paul Berg, Refocusing the Critical Gaze from
Sixty Years' Distance: Austrians' Experiences of the Nazi
Past in Recent Historical Studies
Peter Berger, Gyo;rgy's Machine Gun, Ildikos New Car:
The Controversial Hungarian Revolution of 1956 Revisited
Alexander Lassner, New Scholarship on Austria, Germany,
and Italy in the International Area during the 1930s

BOOK REVIEWS
Thomas Nowotny: Michael Gehler, o;sterreichs Aussenpolitik
der Zweiten Republik – von der alliierten Besatzung
bis zum Europa des 21. Jahrhunderts
Gunter Bischof: Fritz Fellner and Doris A. Corradini, eds.,
o;sterreichische Geschichtswissenschaft im 20. Jahrhundert:
Ein biographisch-bibliographisches Lexikon

ANNUAL REVIEW
Reinhold Gartner, Austria 2006

LIST OF AUTHORS

About the Author

Gunter Bischof is Marshall Plan Professor of History, chair of the History Department, and director of CenterAustria at the University of New Orleans; Fritz Plasser is professor of political science and dean of the political science and sociology faculty at the University of Innsbruck.