 The policy, which was modelled on Hungary's achievement of equal status with Austria under the Habsburg emperor/king, became the basis for the policy of Griffith's new Sinn Féin party.He proposed a dual monarchy, similar to the equivalent of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, formed under the Compromise of 1867.Griffith summed up his ideas in the book by comparing the relative status of Hungary vis-à-vis Austria and Ireland vis-à-vis Great Britain