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
The European Values Study - Austrian Special COVID-19-edition 2021-22 Including Youth Oversample, Wave 1 and Wave 2
- Author(s)
- Sylvia Kritzinger, Johanna Willmann, Patrick Rohs, Markus Pollak, Christian Friesl, Regina Polak
- Abstract
Full edition for scientific use. The COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a heavy blow to many people’s lives and interrupted their normal course of life. The present study thus examines the impact of these changes upon people’s values and attitudes concerning work, partnership and models of femininity, politics, diversity and solidarity, and religion.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Government, Research Centre Religion and Transformation, Department of Practical Theology, Department of Economic Sociology
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.11587/F8V4GL
- Publication date
- 06-2023
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 509013 Social statistics, 504007 Empirical social research
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/6505a81e-d330-415f-a539-a7ba39ea79aa