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

Soziale Integration und Zuspruch für Populismus

Author(s)
Verena Reidinger
Abstract

Die Begründung für den Zusammenhang zwischen niedriger sozialer Integration und der Wahl populistischer Parteien ist, dass Menschen, die das Gefühl haben keine Anerkennung von ihren Mitmenschen zu bekommen, eher Feindseligkeiten gegenüber Eliten entwickeln. Dadurch, dass die populistische Ideologie und die Parteien die diese vertreten, Eliten zum Feindbild machen, sprechen sie vor allem sozial wenig integrierte Menschen an, so die Theorie. In diesem Blogbeitrag soll diese Theorie anhand der Daten des Austrian Corona Panel Project (ACPP) überprüft werden. Zuvor will ich aber noch darauf eingehen was genau soziale Integration ist und wie diese hier konzeptualisiert wird.

Organisation(s)
Department of Government
Publication date
08-2020
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
504023 Political sociology, 504007 Empirical social research
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/bf73f26b-70a9-4d76-9026-289086af0b3b