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 Post Post Election Survey 2009 (SUF edition)
- Author(s)
- Sylvia Kritzinger, Julian Aichholzer, David Johann, Markus Wagner, Johanna Willmann, Eva Zeglovits
- Abstract
Full edition for scientific use. This dataset contains political preferences of Austrian citizens eligible to vote (age 18 and older) after the national parliamentary election on 28.9.2008. It was conducted in the period 6.5. – 2.7.2009 through personal interviews (CAPI). 1165 respondents were selected via multilevel stratified probability sampling. The Kish selection method was used to reach younger respondents. Important variables are, among others, participation in the election; party preferences and party identification; media usage; ways of seeking political information; party closeness; self- and party-placements on a left-right scale; political participation; interest in the electoral campaign; coalition preferences; institutional trust; and preferences concerning the EU and other topical issues such as migration and asylum, the financial crisis, the environment, and nuclear energy. Additional variables capture demographics, weights, and interview ratings
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Government, Department of Sociology
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.11587/QZG1XH
- Publication date
- 04-2020
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 509013 Social statistics, 504007 Empirical social research
- Keywords
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/bc1ab457-b433-4169-9f2c-6c9b697b0422