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
Sozialpartnerschaftliche Politikberatung: Das Auslaufen eines Modells
- Author(s)
- Katrin Praprotnik, Marcelo Jenny, Wolfgang Claudius Müller
- Abstract
Österreich galt lange als Paradebeispiel einer korporatistischen Verhandlungsdemokratie. Neben Tarifpolitik und interessenpolitischer Einflussnahme auf die Gesetzgebung war ein herausragendes Merkmal der österreichischen Sozialpartnerschaft die zwischen den Verbänden abgestimmte Beratung der Regierung durch den Beirat für Wirtschafts- und Sozialfragen in strukturpolitischen Fragen, also in der mittel- und langfristig orientierten Wirtschaftspolitik. Das politische System Österreichs war in den letzten Dekaden tiefgehenden Wandlungsprozessen unterworfen, vor allem durch den Beitritt zur Europäischen Union und eine intensivere Parteienkonkurrenz. Das hat auch die Politikberatung beeinflusst. Dieser Beitrag analysiert die Tätigkeit des Beirats für Wirtschafts- und Sozialfragen durch eine Untersuchung seiner wirtschaftspolitischen Empfehlungen und seiner Reputation mithilfe einer Zitationsanalyse der Stenographischen Parlamentsprotokolle
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Government
- Journal
- Zeitschrift für Politikberatung
- Volume
- 7
- Pages
- 79–90
- ISSN
- 1865-4789
- Publication date
- 2015
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 506010 Policy analysis, 506014 Comparative politics
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Social Sciences
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/36b9b68c-e9af-47b4-b185-7bc8c6391668