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
Kurzskala Soziale Dominanzorientierung (KSDO-3)
- Author(s)
- Julian Aichholzer
- Abstract
Die Fragen der im Folgenden dargestellten Kurzskala Soziale Dominanzorientierung (KSDO-3) wur-den im Rahmen der Austrian National Election Study (AUTNES) 2017 für allgemeine Bevölkerungs-stichproben entwickelt und wurden bereits in weiteren Befragungen der Plattform für Umfragen, Me-thoden und empirische Analysen (PUMA) eingesetzt. Die vorliegende Kurzskala KSDO-3 stellt eine sehr ökonomische Erfassung von Sozialer Dominanzorientierung (SDO; Pratto et al., 1994) für Mehrthemenumfragen dar. Die Items orientieren sich an einer Übersetzung von Items der SDO7-Skala von Ho et al. (2015). Die Skala KSDO-3 eignet sich für Gruppenvergleiche und Korrelationsstudien in verschiedenen Modi, nicht jedoch für die Individualdiagnostik. Die Reliabilität fällt zudem unter formal geringer gebildeten Personen, insbesondere im Modus CAWI (Stichprobe 3), am geringsten aus. Die Verwendung der Skala wird in der Kombination dieser Personengruppe und Modus CAWI somit nicht empfohlen.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Government
- Publication date
- 2019
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 501021 Social psychology, 504007 Empirical social research, 506012 Political systems
- Keywords
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/52123971-d3ca-47ac-9c42-4d4d5842680d