Dualism enables Austria-Hungary to achieve relative financial…
1864 CE to 1875 CE
It does not, however, provide a framework for other nationalities, in particular the Slavs, to achieve equivalent political stature.
Indeed, the Hungarian state uses its power to preclude such an outcome.
Hungary interprets provisions in the Ausgleich as requiring Austria to retain its basic constitutional structure as a unitary state, so that any federalist accommodation with the Czechs will invalidate the Ausgleich and dissolve the Dual Monarchy.