Research
Research
In its research and teaching, the Department of Government primarily focuses on comparative and Austrian politics. Its research is concerned with political behaviour, political actors, such as political parties and politicians, political institutions, the processes governed by these institutions, as well as their outcomes. It includes work on political participation, voting behaviour, parties and party competition, coalition politics and Austrian politics in general and is mostly based on rationalist and behavioural approaches.
Our goal is to conduct high-level, internationally competitive research in the area of Comparative Politics with the collaboration of international project partners and research networks. At the Faculty of Social Sciences the department is mainly engaged in the key research area ''Political Competition and Communication: Democratic Representation in Changing Societies'.
The department’s approach places it in the discipline’s empirical-analytical core and is mostly based on quantitative social science methods. To map empirical phenomena accurately, researcher in the department focus on the continuous development of survey design, as well as on the analysis of empirical data by applying the best suited statistical model. The department aims to achieve the best work on Austrian politics and to make important contributions to the international academic literature on Comparative Government and Politics.
An overview of current publications and activities at the department can be found below and on the personal websites of our team.
Publications
Solidarity contestation in the public domain during the ‘refugee crisis’
- Author(s)
- Manlio Cinalli, Olga Eisele, Verena K. Brändle, Hans-Jörg Trenz
- Abstract
Citizens’ Solidarity in Europe systematically dissects the manifestations of solidarity buried beneath the official policies and measures of public authority in Europe. In this exciting and innovative book, contributors offer comprehensive and original data and highlight the detrimental factors that tend to inhibit or annihilate solidarity, and those that are beneficial for the nurturing of solidarity.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Communication, Department of Government
- External organisation(s)
- University of Copenhagen
- Pages
- 120-148
- No. of pages
- 29
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.4337/9781789909500.00011
- Publication date
- 03-2020
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 508008 Media analysis, 508020 Political communication
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Social Sciences
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/2fbbae34-dd5e-4fd2-9329-c15748e059cd