Josef Kaizl: Political Leader and the Transformation of Czech and Cisleithanian Politics at the Turn of Century

2024 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K01482
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 06010:Politics-related
• Research Institution: Daito Bunka University
• Principal Investigator: Kazutaka Nakane 大東文化大学, 法学部, 教授 (10600645)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2025-03-31
• Keywords: ヨゼフ・カイツル / 政治史 / チェコ

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research project, I researched Josef Kaizl, who was active in Czech politics and politics in Cisleithanien at the end of the 19th century, and noted that liberalism played an important role in his political thought and political leadership. Based on this, the study of Czech party politics, especially in the first half of the 1890s, revealed that Kaizl and his colleagues exploring a pragmatic and realistic line in the Young Czech Party, which suddenly became the dominant party in Czech politics, were simultaneously seeking a new line that had not existed in Czech party politics up to that time. Ultimately, the line they proposed was shown to have a certain degree of actuality in politics of Cisleithanien at the time.

Free Research Field

ヨーロッパ政治史

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究課題の意義は、それまで十分に研究されてこなかったカイツルを研究することを通じて、彼がチェコ政治やオーストリア政治で果たした役割を再確認するとともに、1890年代前半のチェコ政党政治の新たな解釈を提案したことにある。特に、ナショナリズムをことさらに強調することなく、当時のチェコ政党政治とオーストリア政党政治を分析する可能性を提示したことも学術的な貢献として挙げることができる。民族対立がいまだに続く現代社会において、マルチナショナルな国家における政治を政治的な手法で解明することは、現在の問題の解決に一石を投じるものと思われる。