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
NS-Herrschaft in Österreich.
- Author(s)
- Ernst Hanisch, Emmerich Tálos, Wolfgang Neugebauer, Reinhard Sieder
- Abstract
Ziel des vorliegenden Handbuchs ist es, vor dem Hintergrund umfassender wissenschaftlicher Recherchen die Zeit der NS-Herrschaft in Österreich (1938-1945) in ihren Grundzügen sichtbar zu machen: Die Aufsätze behandeln Herrschaftsstrukturen, sozioökonomische Entwicklungen, die politische Einflussnahme auf Arbeit, Schule, Bildung, das Freizeitverhalten der Jugendlichen, die Gesundheitspolitik, die Informationsmedien (Presse, Rundfunk), den Literaturbetrieb ebenso wie die nach der NS-Machtübernahme rasch einsetzende Repression unter der totalitären Perspektive von Ausgrenzung, Enteignung, Vertreibung, Vernichtung -- aber auch die Ansätze tendenzieller Nichtanpassung und die Rolle des politischen Widerstands. Unmittelbare Aktualität beanspruchen die Beiträge über Zwangsarbeit und die so genannte Wiedergutmachung.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Economic and Social History, Department of Government
- External organisation(s)
- Paris-Lodron Universität Salzburg, Dokumentationsarchiv des österreichischen Widerstandes (DÖW)
- No. of pages
- 959
- Publication date
- 2002
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 601008 Science of history, 506001 General theory of the state
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/7f51f6e1-71d8-4005-a348-2d0990cbce0e