by Therese Garstenauer | Dec 14, 2017 | Uncategorized
The project The Great Transformation. State and Municipal Civil Service in Vienna, 1918 to 1920 deals with the profound changes to civil service that took place in the years immediately after the end of the Habsburg Monarchy at the levels of both federal...
by Therese Garstenauer | Dec 1, 2017 | Uncategorized
Sometimes you submit papers, panels, applications etc. and you meet with refusal. That is what happened to the panel I submitted to the European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC). But then, there are times when you succeed, as in the case of a little project...
by Therese Garstenauer | Nov 20, 2017 | Uncategorized
It is great anyway when a volume you have contributed to finally gets published. In this case the Handbook Global History of Work edited by Marcel van der Linden and Karin Hofmeester is concerned. I wrote an article about administrative personnel over five centuries...
by Therese Garstenauer | Oct 10, 2017 | Uncategorized
Geometric Data Analysis (GDA) is a specific approach to analysing statistical data that will be rather important for my Project. It comprises methods such as correspondence analysis, multiple correspondence analysis, principal component analysis and more. These...
by Therese Garstenauer | Sep 28, 2017 | Uncategorized
Every socio-professional group has certain norms and ideas about how to be a butcher, baker, candlestickmaker etc. properly. But with civil servants there is one specific difference: behaving in a manner commensurate with the maintenance of the state reputation is...
by Therese Garstenauer | Sep 19, 2017 | Uncategorized
Such questions suggest themselves after more than two months of silence on these sites. The truth? The author in charge has got yet another academic persona which has moved to the foreground in the last weeks. This persona is characterized by a rather peculiar...
