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

Austrian Corona Panel Project (OA edition)

Author(s)
Sylvia Kritzinger, Bernhard Kittel, Hajo Boomgaarden, Barbara Prainsack, Jakob-Moritz Eberl, Fabian Kalleitner, Noelle Sophie Lebernegg, Julia Partheymüller, Carolina Plescia, David Wolfgang Schiestl, Lukas Schlögl
Abstract

The corona crisis has fundamentally changed the everyday life in Austria as well as in many other countries. However, people are affected in very different ways. Against this background, the Corona Panel Study aims to provide an overview of various health, economic and social aspects of the corona crisis

Organisation(s)
Department of Government, Department of Economic Sociology, Department of Communication, Department of Political Science, Research Platform Governance of digital practices
DOI
https://doi.org/10.11587/P5YJ0O
Publication date
04-2021
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
506012 Political systems, 502027 Political economy, 504007 Empirical social research
Keywords
Sustainable Development Goals
SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/ab99e5d0-caae-4435-b075-a7807260a4bb