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
Gekaufte Aufmerksamkeit: Facebook-Werbung im Nationalratswahlkampf 2019
- Author(s)
- Lena Maria Huber, Christina Gahn
- Abstract
Im Wahljahr 2019 gaben die österreichischen Parteien hohe Summen für den Online-Wahlkampf aus, insbesondere für Werbung auf Facebook. Dabei stiegen die Werbeausgaben gerade in der Schlussphase des Wahlkampfs besonders stark an. Welche Gruppen die Parteien auf Facebook erreichten und welche Themen sie dabei betonten, untersuchen Lena Maria Huber und Christina Gahn im folgenden Beitrag anhand der Daten der Facebook Ad Library.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Government
- External organisation(s)
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Publication date
- 02-2020
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 506014 Comparative politics
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/eafb40fe-ec7e-48a5-bc7d-40b9b015dffb