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
Die Impfbereitschaft in der österreichischen Bevölkerung im Mai 2021
- Author(s)
- Katharina Theresa Paul, Julia Partheymüller, Jakob-Moritz Eberl
- Abstract
Damit die Pandemie zu einem Ende kommt, ist es wichtig, dass sich möglichst viele Personen impfen lassen. Während manche Schätzungen davon ausgehen, dass mindestens 70 Prozent der Gesamtbevölkerung zur Erreichung einer Herdenimmunität geimpft sein müssen, sehen neuere Schätzungen angesichts von hochansteckenden Virusmutanten einen noch höheren Anteil von bis 80 bis 85 Prozent vor. Vor diesem Hintergrund beleuchtet dieser Beitrag die Entwicklung der Einstellung zur Corona-Schutzimpfung in Österreich mit den jüngsten Zahlen aus der ACPP-Umfrage vom Mai 2021 (Befragungszeitraum: 21.-28.5.2021; Wohnbevölkerung ab 14 Jahren).
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Political Science, Department of Government, Department of Communication
- Publication date
- 06-2021
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 303026 Public health, 504007 Empirical social research
- Keywords
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/8228db84-3e6a-434e-8a36-350ef3c313ba