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.

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From March 13 to 14, 2025, the ‘PARTISAN’ project by Prof. Markus Wagner hosted a workshop. Over two days, researchers from the Department of...
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On April 8, 2025, MEDem (Monitoring Electoral Democracy) took a major next step toward shaping the future of Democracy Research in Europe: it...
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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...
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The Department of Government kindly invites you to the Seminar Series Talk by Thomas Winzen.

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We are pleased to welcome Florian Kärcher as student assistant at our department and wish her every success in her new position!
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We are pleased to welcome Isabel Kiani as student assistant at our department and wish her every success in her new position!
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Wie schon für die Nationalratswahl 2024 stellt Der STANDARD wieder eine Orientierungshilfe zur bevorstehenden Wien-Wahl zur Verfügung. Mit...
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For the first time, the Faculty of Social Sciences is presenting the Teaching Award Social Sciences in 2025. With this award, we would like to make...
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We are happy to announce that PhD student Belén Abdala successfully defended her thesis "From Voting to Candidacy: An Analysis of Individuals’...
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We are pleased to welcome Christina Gahn as University Assistant Postdoc at our department and wish her every success in her new position!
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We are pleased to welcome Michael Imre as Post Doc in the project ‘Why this abundance of constitutional law in Austria’ by Wolfgang C. Müller and wish...
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We are happy to welcome Iris Schimscha as a student assistant in our department and wish her a good start!
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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.
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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.
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09.03.2020
 

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

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