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
Political anger
- Author(s)
- Johann Gründl
- Abstract
This paper tackles the sources of angry feelings towards politics. The role of populism, as well as economic and socio-cultural grievances, is considered and discussed based on appraisal theories of emotions. The paper uses panel data collected in the context of the Austrian parliamentary election campaign in 2017 to tackle these issues. Extensive controls on citizens’ information environment were included, and the findings highlight the role of populist attitudes and populist blame for the emergence of anger about politics.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Government
- Publication date
- 07-2020
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 506012 Political systems, 501021 Social psychology, 504007 Empirical social research
- Keywords
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/70666ad2-0a8b-4252-b77b-a6d31ef638bb