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...

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...

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...

There is something nerdy about conducting research on government employees. In this new series of blogposts I will advance some reasons why my research project is relevant:     As of now, there is no comprehensive social and cultural history of Austrian...

My esteemed colleagues Johann Kirchknopf, Stefan Ossmann and Franz X. Eder organize a workshop in order to present research projects from the social and cultural sciences, and humanities and discuss theoretical as well as practical questions pertaining to research on...

  This is a find from the compilation of the laws, decrees and decisions and legal requirements of the local council, city council, municipal council of the City of Vienna, 1919. Obviously, the media were a trifle less complex then. "Berichtigung unwahrer...

This is a project dealing predominantly with the past. Yet, sometimes one has to work for the future, too – e.g. by proposing a session named "Bureaucratic Interactions" for the European Social Science History Conference 2018, as I did yesterday. If the session is...