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The Politics of Appointment: The Czech Minister and the Transformation of Habsburg Administration

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Austrian and Habsburg Studies



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The Politics of Appointment

The Czech Minister and the Transformation of Habsburg Administration

Martin Klečacký

324 pages, 21 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-83695-530-6 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (June 2026)

eISBN 978-1-83695-531-3 eBook Not Yet Published


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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

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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 České Budějovice, it chronicles the Young Czech Party’s 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.

Martin Klečacký 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.

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
Area: EuropeCentral/Eastern Europe


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