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
New work, new inequality: Wer arbeitet im Homeoffice?
- Author(s)
- Fabian Kalleitner, Julia Partheymüller
- Abstract
Gewisse Berufsgruppen und Branchen können leicht ins Homeoffice wechseln, andere sind beinahe völlig von dieser Möglichkeit ausgeschlossen. Somit werden durch das Homeoffice bestehende Ungleichheiten verstärkt und auch neue Ungleichheiten erzeugt, indem das Homeoffice gewissen Beschäftigungsgruppen mehr Flexibilität ermöglicht und sie vor Infektionen, Arbeitslosigkeit und Kurzarbeit schützt, während andere Gruppen nicht davon profitieren können. Um einen Eindruck dafür zu bekommen wie unterschiedlich die Möglichkeiten von Homeoffice unter den österreichischen Erwerbstätigen verteilt sind, vergleichen wir in diesem Beitrag die Homeoffice-Anteile in verschiedenen Branchen sowie anhand unterschiedlicher soziodemographischer Merkmale.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Economic Sociology, Department of Government
- Publication date
- 06-2021
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 504030 Economic sociology, 504007 Empirical social research
- Keywords
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/53339a3a-efa0-4588-99e5-4482b3784ccc