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.
Political Institutions
Institutions play a key role in political systems, as they define the framework conditions for political decisions...
Political Representation
Political representation describes the institutional and social processes and practices that connect citizens and voters to...
Party Competition
Party competition is an essential component of democratic systems and describes the competition between political parties for votes...
Infrastructural Projects
Infrastructural projects are an essential component of scientific research, as they create the basis for long-term data collection...
Political Behaviour
Political behaviour deals with the individual and collective attitudes and actions of citizens in a political context...
Cooperations
Cooperations are a central component of scientific research, as they promote the exchange of knowledge, resources and...
Publications
Tools of the Trade – When Are Software Tools Mentioned in Computational Text Analysis Research?
- Author(s)
- Marvin Stecker, Paul Balluff, Fabienne Lind, Celina Dinhopl, Annie Waldherr, Hajo G. Boomgaarden
- Abstract
The use of computational methods for text analysis has been rapidly gaining a foothold in computational social science. Yet, little is known about the reporting practises of the software tools utilised in this field. This research note investigates the factors influencing the likelihood of software tools being mentioned in social science journal articles. To this end, we reviewed 406 journal articles, representing all computational text analysis articles published in top social science journals between 2016 and 2020, and identified all software tools reported. We explore both article-level and tool-level characteristics and investigate their association with the mentioning of software tools. Our findings indicate a consistent pattern of tool reporting across time and disciplines, while authors who detail methodological validation within their papers are more inclined to mention the software tools employed. Furthermore, we observe that software tools with greater accessibility tend to receive more frequent mentions, while the maintenance status of the tools does not significantly impact their frequency of being mentioned. We discuss the implications of these results for the further development of computational text analysis in social science and especially communication research.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Communication, Department of Government
- Journal
- Computational Communication Research
- Volume
- 6
- Pages
- 1-21
- No. of pages
- 21
- ISSN
- 2665-9085
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.5117/ccr2024.1.6.stec
- Publication date
- 01-2024
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 508007 Communication science
- Keywords
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Communication
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/c1bb6247-1ea3-442e-98d5-67a0a0e298a6