The emperors desk: a site of policy making in the Habsburg Empire? Francis Joseph I and his Cabinet Office

皇帝办公桌：哈布斯堡帝国的决策场所？许多熟悉的形象将弗朗茨·约瑟夫皇帝描绘成一名纪律严明的办公室工作人员。它们与他的自我描述相符。然而，他的推动笔活动得到了内阁府的支持。它的成员注册并签署了大约。250,000份书面陈述(沃特雷日)，皇帝在位期间在办公桌前处理。我们的项目使用内阁办公室对这些提交文件的谨慎官僚处理作为其主要的经验证据。我们将这些意见书理解为一种渠道，通过这种渠道，哈布斯堡王室的整个政府活动可以通过统计政策领域的分析第一次被看到和获取。我们的统计分析将被用来越过皇帝的办公桌进行分析，在那里我们将注意到意见书在各个政策领域的分布，以及我们将跟踪随时间的变化。这将为我们提供对弗朗茨·约瑟夫一世统治时期政府活动的概括性看法。因此，第二步，我们选择两个政策领域进行深入分析：基础设施/技术和象征性政治。它们代表着物质和非物质资源分配的不同方法，以及君主制政治整合的不同战略。我们将追溯选定项目的官僚和政治轨迹，一直追溯到皇帝的办公桌。我们尤其对国家和非国家行为者的机构以及不同行为者群体的合作和网络感兴趣。在此背景下，我们将仔细研究有关的意见书。文本分析将揭示演示文稿的选择性。网络分析重建了政治进程的哪些方面，在提交给皇帝的报告中提供了哪些方面？哪些沟通策略被证明是成功的，例如，装饰和尊贵的主要卖点是什么？项目的最后部分分析了内阁府作为一个政治场所的自身优点。它的官员参与了非正式的政策网络。对于其备受赞誉的主任阿道夫·布劳恩来说尤其如此，他在1865年至1899年期间决定了这个重要机构的命运。布朗的文件尚未被系统研究，其中包含他的官方信件，这些信件使他与来自不同行业和君主制不同部分的约3000名男男女女有了联系。文本和网络分析的仔细结合，将首次对19世纪下半叶哈布斯堡君主制下的非正式政治的逻辑提供重要的见解。

The emperors desk: a site of policy making in the Habsburg Empire?Many familiar images depict emperor Franz Joseph as a disciplined desk worker. They conform with his self-description. However, his pen-pushing activities were supported by the Cabinet Office. Its members registered and protocolled approx. 250,000 written presentations (Vorträge), which the emperor processed at his desk during the period of his reign. Our project uses the careful bureaucratic handling of these submissions by the Cabinet Office as its main empirical evidence. We understand the submissions as a kind of channel through which the entire government activities of the Habsburg monarchy can be made visible and accessible for the first time using a statistical policy field analysis.Our statistical analysis will be used to cast an analytical look over the shoulder of the emperor at his desk, where we will note the distribution of submissions across various policy fields and where we will track changes over time. This will provide us with a synoptic view on government activities in the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph I. In a second step we therefore select two policy areas for an in-depth analysis: infrastructure / technology and symbolic politics. They stand in for different approaches to resource distribution, both material and immaterial, and for different strategies for the political integration of the monarchy. We will retrace the bureaucratic and political trajectory of selected projects all the way up to the desk of the emperor. We are interested in particular in the agency of state and non-state actors and in the cooperation and networks of different actor groups. Against this background, we will take a closer look at the submissions in question. Text analysis will reveal the selectivity of the presentation. What aspects of the political process, the network analysis has reconstructed, were made available in the submission to the Emperor? What communication strategies proved to be successful, e.g. what were the main selling points for decorations and ennoblement?The final part of the project analyzes the Cabinet Office as a place of politics in its own merits. Its officials were involved in informal policy networks. This was especially true for its highly decorated director Adolf Braun, who determined the fate of this important institution between 1865 and 1899. The papers of Brown, which have not been systematically studied yet, contain his official correspondence, which brought him in contact with about 3,000 men and women from different walks of life and various parts of the monarchy. A careful combination of text and network analysis will provide first significant insights into the logic of informal politics in the Habsburg Monarchy of the second half of the 19th century.