¹ The editor wishes to thank Eva-Marie Csáky and Peter Urbanitsch, of the University of Vienna, for preparing this list. Included in it are doctoral dissertations recently accepted by Faculties of Philosophy, Catholic Theology, and Political Science at the Universities of Graz, Innsbruck, Salzburg, and Vienna.

² The list of dissertations in progress was also prepared by Eva-Marie Csáky and Peter Urbanitsch. The name at the end of each entry is that of the faculty member under whose supervision the dissertation is being written. If the supervisor had still not been officially selected at the time the list was prepared no name is given.