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

Impfbereitschaft in Österreich stabil – Doch nicht jeder Impfstoff gleich beliebt

Author(s)
Jakob-Moritz Eberl, Julia Partheymüller, Katharina Theresa Paul
Abstract

Im Rahmen des Austria Corona Panel Projects haben wir wiederholt die Haltung der österreichischen Bevölkerung gegenüber der Coronavirus-Schutzimpfung ermittelt. Im März 2021 erfragten wir zudem erstmals die Impfbereitschaft für Impfstoffe verschiedener Hersteller. Da laufend neue Impfstoffe zugelassen werden und Impfprogramme dadurch auch angepasst werden, beschäftigen wir uns in dieser Analyse mit der Frage, inwiefern sich die Impfbereitschaft in Österreich je nach Vakzin unterscheidet.

Organisation(s)
Department of Communication, Department of Government, Department of Political Science
Publication date
03-2021
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
303026 Public health, 504007 Empirical social research
Sustainable Development Goals
SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/76c7839c-73bc-4a7f-ae2b-dd76484c08ad