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

European Values Study 2018 Austria

Author(s)
Sylvia Kritzinger, Julian Aichholzer, Josef Glavanovits, Sanja Hajdinjak, Judith Klaiber, Lena Seewann
Abstract

Full edition for scientific use. The EVS 2018 Austria study is part of a EVS 2018 study that focuses on values in European countries. This is the 4th wave, adding to the 1990, 1999 and 2008 surveys carried out in Austria and other European countries. The dataset includes an additional sample of participants with migration background either from Former Yugoslavia or from Turkey.

Organisation(s)
Department of Government, Department of Practical Theology, Department of Sociology
DOI
https://doi.org/10.11587/8A4CWK
Publication date
2019
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
506013 Political theory
Keywords
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/8a1609ed-7e6b-43e7-af1d-6cd9ffb574dd