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 Content Analysis of ORF TV Confrontations 2013
- Author(s)
- Wolfgang Claudius Müller, Anita Bodlos, Martin Dolezal, Nikolaus Eder, Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik, Matthias Kaltenegger, Thomas Meyer, Katrin Praprotnik, Anna Katharina Winkler
- Abstract
"Der AUTNES-Datensatz zu TV-Konfrontationen beinhaltet 15 Zweier-Debatten zwischen den Spitzenkandidaten der Nationalratswahl 2013. Diese Debatten wurden vom öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunk (ORF) während des Wahlkampfes zwischen dem 29. August und dem 24. September ausgestrahlt. Alle während dieser Sendungen gesprochenen Sätze sind Teil des Datensatzes und bilden die Untersuchungseinheiten. Diese werden mit der relationalen Subjekt-Prädikat-Objekt-Struktur von AUTNES inhaltsanalytisch erfasst. Das Subjekt ist dabei jener Akteur, welcher im jeweiligen Satz eine Position zu einem Thema einnimmt..."
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Government
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.4232/1.12689
- Publication date
- 2017
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 506014 Comparative politics
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/b4f5d8a2-5ec3-4a2f-b123-d69c240d7af4