Talk:Politics of Austria

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wasn't there a major 'house cleaning' ? the whole gov't stepped down didn't it? the whole jorg haider thing?

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I've never heard the terms ‘upper house’ or ‘lower-house’ in context of the Austrian parliament. Is there reason for using these terms here? -- 131.130.1.135 13:45, 21 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Those are political science terms, they're commonly used with respect to any nation with a bicameral legislature.

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The Federal Assembly of Austria should not be mistaken with the parliament. It is a third parliamentary body, which consists of the two houses. It is the joint assembly of the Nationalrat and the Bundesrat. See [1] for further details. Gugganij 14:36, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)

The ‘Parlament’ is only the name of the building housing those bodies. Their names are Nationalrat, Bundesrat and Bundesversammlung as you mention correctly. Nevertheless even Austrian media calls the Nationalrat ‘Parlament’ from time to time. --Wirthi 19:13, 12 August 2005 (UTC)

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I removed following information:

• Ambassador to the United States - Peter Moser
• Ambassador to the United Nations - Gerhard Pflanzelter

Austria maintains an embassy in the United States at 3524 International Court, NW, Washington, DC 20008 (te1. 202-895-6700). Consulates general are located in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, with honorary consulates in Atlanta, Boston, Buffalo, Cleveland, Denver, Honolulu, Houston, Miami, New Orleans, Newark, Philadelphia, St. Paul, San Francisco, San Juan, and Seattle.

Resons: 1. I don't think that ambassadors are principal government officials. 2. Information of Austrian embassies in the US might be better placed in a separate article US-Austrian relations than in an article covering politics of Austria.

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I edited the government part and realized only after that I duplicated parts of Constitution of Austria again. But I think they are necessary to give a consistent overview. At least it should be better than the previous version which contained factual errors like "neither president nor cabinet are answerable to the legislature" and "state-approved, compulsory-membership labor unions". Ixi 17:07, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

update

Jörg Haider is no longer Leader of the FPÖ

federal states

It's not quite correct that the states of Austria have no independant iurisdiction, because Austrian iurisdiction is generally independant from legislation and execution, iurisdiction doesn't fall into the federal system of Austria. Anyway, first instances in the iurisdictional process are normally based on the different nine states and not on the whole country.

• Yes it is quite correct. Jurisdiction does certainly fall within the federal system in Austria. The constitution clearly specifies in Art. 82 that "Alle Gerichtsbarkeit geht vom Bund aus.", ie all jurisdiction is a federal matter. "Urteile... werden im Namen der Republik verkündet und ausgefertigt.", all rulings and judgments are to be pronounced and executed in the name of the republic. Bottom line: all courts are federal in nature. Unlike, say, Germany, or the US, of course, there are absolutely no state courts in Austria. Greil 12:46, 29 October 2007 (UTC)

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Issues with the article

Some of the issues I've got:

• No citations
• Might contain original research
• Missing neutrality e.g. "degenerated into a clerical fascist dictatorship between 1933-1934, in large part, as a response to the external threat posed by Nazi Germany" ('really?') or "begun ceding core responsibilities to supranational institutions at an increasing rate."
• Not easy to read (Part "political conditions")

In my opinion the article has to be almost completely redone --Completefailure (talk) 13:54, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

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What's wrong? I can't see what the problem is, but the top infobox doesn't render. DemonDays64 | Tell me if I'm doing something wrong :P 00:32, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

RfC: use of 'federal' as a prefix

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

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For years now editors have disagreed on whether to use the word 'federal' as prefix on articles related to Austrian politics and public administration (especially when it comes to the president, the chancellor, and the ministries), e.g. Ministry of the Interior (Austria), Federal Ministry of Finance (Austria).

Arguments for omission:

1) User:Kramler has written an essay on why it is misleading to use the prefix from a legal and scholarly perspective 2) The vast majority of English language sources omit 'federal' (examples: 1 2 3 4 5 6)

Arguments for inclusion:

1) It is the literal translation 2) The English language websites of government ministries use the prefix (examples: 1 2 3 4 5)

Thus should we include or omit the word 'federal' as a prefix? Colonestarrice (talk) 11:59, 16 November 2021 (UTC)

Survey

Omit in non-formal contexts per assay by Kramler, English sources above and Google Ngram results, but include everywhere where there is need for political entity reference (akin to how its done to Russian Federation: informally were refer to it simply as Russia). Regards. AXONOV (talk) ⚑ 07:40, 21 November 2021 (UTC)

• Omit but provide some context for reader to understand any ambiguity that may arise. LondonIP (talk) 20:44, 1 January 2022 (UTC)

"Politics in Austria reflects the dynamics of competition among multiple political parties, which led to the formation of a Conservative-Green coalition government for the first time in January 2020, following the snap elections of 29 September 2019, and the election of a former Green Party leader to the presidency in 2016."

This is confusing. It sounds like the 2019 elections led to the election of a former Green Party leader to the presidency in 2016. Should that have been "to the presidency in 2020?" Polar Apposite (talk) 16:54, 22 August 2023 (UTC)