A unique study on the relationship between state administration and politics, examining how the office of the Czech Landsmannminister became the primary vehicle for the politicization of the Habsburg state. Through case studies in Vienna, Prague, and eské Budjovice, it chronicles the Young Czech Partys systematic campaign to gain control of selected key positions within the administration of the multinational monarchy. The narrative details how ministers used personnel policy to embed loyalists within the bureaucracy, consistently bypassing merit in favor of national and political allegiance to successfully Czechize the formally supranational administration.
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The author is well acquainted with the complicated structure of Habsburg Austria and is able to translate this difficult topic, not only to readers familiar with the time and region, but also to readers interested in the history of bureaucratic institutions, state development or problems of multi-national entities in times of change and conflict. Franz Adlgasser, Austrian Academy of Sciences
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
A Note on Translation and Terminology
Introduction
Chapter
1. Landsmannminister: The Office and Its Holders
Chapter
2. Prague: At the Helm of the Crownland
Chapter
3. Vienna: At the Helm of the Empire
Chapter
4. eské Budjovice/Budweis: At the Helm of the Region
Conclusion
Bibliography
Appendix I
Appendix II
Appendix III
Index
Martin Kleacký is a researcher at the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague. He specializes in the modern history of the Bohemian lands, with a focus on public administration, elites, and parliamentarism in the Habsburg Monarchy and interwar Czechoslovakia.
