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

Covid-19: Szenarien für Herbst/Winter 2022 - und darüber hinaus

Author(s): Arne C Bathke, Andrea Berghold, Andreas Bergthaler, Thomas Czypionka, Ulrich Elling, Gerry Foitik, Nikolaus Forgó, Margaretha Gansterer, Anita Gottlob, Christina Hopfe, Beate Jahn, Peter Klimek, Thomas König, Christian Korunka, Norbert Kreuzinger, Sylvia Kritzinger, Dorothee von Laer, Herwig Ostermann, Niki Popper, Ulrich Pöschl, Andrea Siebenhofer-Kroitzsch, Uwe Siebert, Tanja Stamm, Michael Stampfer, Andrea E. Schmidt, Barbara Schober, Michael Wagner
Organisation(s): Department of Innovation and Digitalisation in Law, Department of Occupational, Economic and Social Psychology, Department of Government, Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology
External organisation(s): Medizinische Universität Graz, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW), Medizinische Universität Wien, IHS - Institut für Höhere Studien und wissenschaftliche Forschung, London School of Economics and Political Science, Technische Universität Wien, Medizinische Universität Innsbruck, Austrian National Public Health Institute, Competence Centre on Climate and Health, Vienna, Austria., Max-Planck-Institut für Biogeochemie, Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie (Otto-Hahn-Institut), Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Energiekonversion, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Max-Planck-Institut für Chemische Physik fester Stoffe, Private Universität für Gesundheitswissenschaften und -technologie GmbH, Gesellschaft für Pharmazeutische Medizin E.V. (GPMed), Wiener Wissenschafts-, Forschungs- und Technologiefonds (WWTF)
Publication date: 2022
Austrian Fields of Science 2012: 501021 Social psychology
Portal url: https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/e5526b16-7a90-46d4-8c8d-97ee26576ed9

Research

Research

Political Institutions

Political Representation

Party Competition

Infrastructural Projects

Political Behaviour

Cooperations

Publications

Covid-19: Szenarien für Herbst/Winter 2022 - und darüber hinaus

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