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Austria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2026

Marcelo Jenny
Marcelo Jenny*
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Department of Government, University of Vienna, Austria
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The European elections were the only major elections in Austria in 2014, apart from a single regional election in Vorarlberg in the autumn. Important issues in national politics were the Hypo Alpe Adria bank affair and an intra-government dispute over the timing of a promised tax reform. The chairman of the People’s Party, who was also Vice-Chancellor and Finance Minister in the national government, stepped down over the dispute. Close to the year’s end parliament passed a major reform of the procedures for parliamentary committees of inquiry.

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Political Data Yearbook , Volume 54 , Issue 1 , December 2015 , pp. 25 - 32
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Copyright © 2016 European Consortium for Political Research

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