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
European Values Study 1990-2018 Austria Longitudinal Data (SUF edition)
- Author(s)
- Sylvia Kritzinger, Julian Aichholzer, Josef Glavanovits, Sanja Hajdinjak, Judith Klaiber, Lena Seewann, Christian Friesl, Paul Michael Zulehner
- Abstract
Full edition for scientific use. The EVS 1990-2018 Austria Longitudinal Data Study is part of a EVS longitudinal study that focuses on values in European countries. The dataset includes surveys for the EVS waves in which Austria participated in the years 1990, 1999, 2008, and 2018.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Government, Department of Practical Theology, Department of Sociology
- Publication date
- 2019
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 504007 Empirical social research, 506012 Political systems
- Keywords
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/347754cf-1510-444e-bf6f-c54ba429d95f