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
Unangemessen und ineffektiv? Die Regierungsmaßnahmen geraten zunehmend in Kritik
- Author(s)
- Sylvia Kritzinger, Fabian Kalleitner
- Abstract
Das Auftreten neuer Virusmutationen von SARS-CoV-2 sowie nur leicht sinkende Infektionszahlen über die Weihnachtsfeiertage und Anfang Jänner 2021 führte jedoch dazu, dass am 17. Jänner die Bundesregierung statt einer Beendigung des Lockdowns vielmehr die Verlängerung des Lockdowns mit teils verschärften Maßnahmen verkünden musste. Die erneute (drohende) Verlängerung des Lockdowns und damit einhergehend das weitere Hinauszögern der Möglichkeit, in ein „normales“ Leben zurückkehren zu können, scheint aber auch größere Auswirkungen auf die Bewertung der Regierungsmaßnahmen in der österreichischen Bevölkerung zu haben.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Government, Department of Economic Sociology
- Publication date
- 01-2021
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 504023 Political sociology, 504007 Empirical social research
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/7848d921-56f8-493b-a116-54a527cc5f16