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
Betroffenheit von den Einschränkungen im Gesundheitsbereich während der Corona-Krise
- Author(s)
- Florian Holl, Christina Walcherberger, Thomas Resch, Julia Partheymüller
- Abstract
Die Corona-Krise hatte vielfältige Auswirkungen auf den Gesundheitsbereich. Während bisher die Belegung der Intensivstationen im Fokus der Öffentlichkeit lag, ergaben und ergeben sich weiterhin auch Einschränkungen für den allgemeinen Krankenhausbereich und den niedergelassenen Gesundheitsbereich. So war beispielsweise regelmäßig Medienberichten zu entnehmen, dass auch die Normalstationen stark belastet waren und planbare Operationen verschoben werden mussten. Es ist zu erwarten, dass insbesondere Menschen mit Grunderkrankungen jenseits einer COVID19-Infektion von den Einschränkungen im Gesundheitsbereich besonders häufig betroffen waren. Dauerhafte Krankheiten oder chronische Gesundheitsprobleme liegen laut Statistik Austria 2019 bei rund 2,8 Mio. Österreicher*innen über 15 Jahren vor. Vor diesem Hintergrund betrachtet dieser Blogbeitrag anhand von Daten von November/Anfang Dezember 2021 die Betroffenheit durch Einschränkungen im Gesundheitsbereich.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Economic Sociology, Department of Government
- Publication date
- 03-2022
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 504007 Empirical social research, 303026 Public health
- Keywords
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/92a2080b-affd-4339-aca2-3c6d94ba5b3c