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
Vertrauen in die österreichische Bundesregierung und in das Gesundheitssystem während der COVID-19-Pandemie
- Author(s)
- Anna Lia Brunetti, Fabian Kalleitner, Carolina Plescia
- Abstract
Gerade in Krisenzeiten ist das Vertrauen der Bevölkerung in öffentliche Institutionen von großer Bedeutung. Die Erwartung, dass die Regierungspolitik sachdienlich ist, erleichtert die Umsetzung von schwerwiegenden und oft auch freiheitseinschränkenden Maßnahmen, und beeinflusst damit den weiteren Krisenverlauf. Im Rahmen des Austrian Corona Panel Project wurden die Studienteilnehmer*innen befragt, ihr Vertrauen in die österreichische Bundesregierung und in das Gesundheitssystem auf einer zehnstufigen Skala einzuordnen.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Government, Department of Economic Sociology
- Publication date
- 02-2021
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 504007 Empirical social research
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/7b94e3e0-25b8-41ea-9909-07390a6f4f28