Contents // List of Illustrations ix // Acknowledgments xi // A Note on Nomenclature xv // Introduction 1 // 1 The Dynamics ofAustrian Governance, 1780-1848 19 // 2 The Madness ofCount Stadion; // or, Austria Between Revolution and Reaction 65 // ? The Reforging ofthe Habsburg State, 1849-1859 99 // 4 State Building on a NewTrack: Austria in the 1860s 1B7 // 5 The Years of Procedure, 1868-1900 175 // 6 Bureaucracy and Democracy in the Final Decades // ofthe Monarchy, 1890-1914 215 // Epilogue. The State of Exception: // Austria’s Descent into theTwentieth Century 261 // Notes 277 // Index 343