Welcome to the Department of Government !

The Department of Government covers a wide range of political science topics in Austrian and Comparative Politics. Research and teaching mainly focus on political representation, party competition, political institutions, political economy and political behavior.

Further information on our team, current research projects and teaching can be found on the following pages.

Information on research of the research center 'Vienna Center for Electoral Research (VieCER)' can be found on the webpage of VieCER.

 News

From 19 to 21 May, science will once again take centre stage! Many exciting events await you in six Austrian cities. Dr. Julia Partheymüller will host...
More

The Faculty of Social Sciences and the Vienna Doctoral School of Social Sciences (ViDSS) warmly invite Faculty members, students, alumni*ae and...
More

Mit großem Bedauern und aufrichtiger Anteilnahme geben wir bekannt, dass Mag. Mag. Dr. Dr. Hubert Sickinger, engagierter Politikwissenschaftler, und...
More

In recent years, the public’s preference for technocratic governance has risen alongside the appeal of populist parties. While the latter has already...
More

The Department of Government kindly invites you to the Seminar Series Talk by Chitralekha Basu
More

The Department of Government kindly invites you to the Seminar Series Talk by Michael Laver.
More

We are pleased to welcome Bence Hamrak as predoc in the project ‘MULTIREP’ by Christopher Wratil and wish him a good start at the University of...
More

From March 13 to 14, 2025, the ‘PARTISAN’ project by Prof. Markus Wagner hosted a workshop. Over two days, researchers from the Department of...
More

On April 8, 2025, MEDem (Monitoring Electoral Democracy) took a major next step toward shaping the future of Democracy Research in Europe: it...
More

Am Mittwoch, den 14. Mai 2025 um 16.00 Uhr findet die Antrittsvorlesung von Univ.-Prof. Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik und Univ.-Prof. Thomas M. Meyer im...
More

The Department of Government kindly invites you to the Seminar Series Talk by Thomas Winzen.

More

We are pleased to welcome Florian Kärcher as student assistant at our department and wish her every success in her new position!
More

News Archive

Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Next Page Last Page
12.06.2020
 

Pitch a Thesis - online: Forschung und (Berufs-)Praxis für Sozialwissenschaftler*innen

Am 16. Juni, 13:00 bis 14:30 Uhr stellen Studierende aus dem Sowi-Bereich den Forschungszweck ihrer Abschlussarbeit vor.
More
24.04.2020
 

Announcement: post doc position for 4,25 years; application deadline: 30.05.

For a person with excellent knowledge of quantitative methods in the social sciences and interest in data science.
More
09.03.2020
 

The Effects of a Wall: Gender Attitudes and Political Gender Gaps in Unified Germany

More
Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Next Page Last Page