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
Chronologie zur Corona-Krise in Österreich - Teil 6: Ein “Sommer wie damals”, der Weg in die vierte Welle, ein erneuter Lockdown und die Impfpflicht
- Author(s)
- Markus Pollak, Nikolaus Kowarz, Julia Partheymüller
- Abstract
Dieser Beitrag dokumentiert die Schlüsselereignisse, Entwicklungen und Maßnahmen der Corona-Krise in Österreich im Zeitraum von Mai bis November 2021. In bisher fünf Beiträgen zur Chronologie der Corona-Krise in Österreich wurden bereits der erste Lockdown und die Anfangsphase der Krise im Frühjahr 2020 und die darauffolgende Rücknahme der Maßnahmen beschrieben. Außerdem wurden in weiterer Folge der Beginn der zweiten Welle, die neuerlichen Lockdowns im Herbst und Winter 2020/21 sowie die dritte Welle im Frühjahr 2021, regionale Lockdowns und die ersten Monate der Impfkampagne dargestellt. Im vorliegenden Beitrag beleuchten wir, was seither geschah.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Economic Sociology, Department of Government
- Publication date
- 12-2021
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 303026 Public health, 504007 Empirical social research
- Keywords
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/f07cd658-4bb5-455c-88b4-0c8c965d4fc9