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
Geschichte macht Herrschaft
- Author(s)
- Florian Wenninger, Paul Dvorak, Katharina Kuffner
- Abstract
Wie beeinflussen politische AkteurInnen die Reproduktion spezifischer Deutungsmuster und wie wirken einmal etablierte historische Paradigmen auf politische AkteurInnen zurück?
20 Jahre nach Waldheim bekennt sich Österreich zum Postulat aus Geschichte lernen. Scheinbar erfüllt wurde diese Forderung durch die Aufbereitung von Geschichte in entkontextualisierten, emotional aufgeladenen Events wie 25 peaces oder Letters to the Stars. Für die gegenwärtige Politik relevante Fragen wurden dabei weitestgehend ausgeklammert. Walter Manoschek, Emmerich Tálos, Anton Pelinka, Oliver Rathkolb und andere AutorInnen fragen, in welcher Wechselbeziehung Politik und Geschichtsschreibung zueinander stehen. Wie beeinflussen politische AkteurInnen die Reproduktion spezifischer Deutungsmuster und wie wirken einmal etablierte historische Paradigmen auf politische AkteurInnen zurück? Kurz: Wie wurden und werden historische Deutungshoheiten errungen und politisch eingesetzt?- Organisation(s)
- Department of Government, Department of History
- External organisation(s)
- Unknown External Organisation Unbekannt/undefiniert
- No. of pages
- 320
- Publication date
- 2007
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 601014 Modern history
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Arts and Humanities
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/7a5cde88-8b0c-4cdd-a230-55d4d43da3e4