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
AUTNES Comparative Study of Electoral Systems Post-Election Survey 2013 (SUF edition)
- Author(s)
- Sylvia Kritzinger, Kathrin Thomas, Christian Glantschnigg, Julian Aichholzer, Konstantin Glinitzer, David Johann, Markus Wagner, Eva Zeglovits
- Abstract
Full edition for scientific use. This dataset contains political preferences of Austrian citizens eligible to vote (age 16 and older) after the national parliamentary election on 29.9.2013. Telephone interviews (CATI) were conducted in the period 1.10. – 29.10.2013. 1000 respondents were selected based on proportionally stratified probability sampling. This survey is part of the international Comparative Study of Electoral Systems. Important variables are, among others, participation in the election and vote choice; preferences concerning raising/cutting public expenditure in certain policy areas; party closeness; party preferences and party identification; satisfaction with democracy; self- and party-placements on a left-right scale; political participation; perception of campaign ads; and political knowledge. Additional variables capture demographics, weights, and interview ratings.- Organisation(s)
- Department of Government, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.11587/5ZO48V
- Publication date
- 04-2020
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 506012 Political systems
- Keywords
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/808bfdae-0f65-43ca-9e7b-c7a8b852e33e