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

Hat der "Lockdown für Ungeimpfte" gewirkt?

Author(s)
Fabian Kalleitner, Julia Partheymüller
Abstract

Der “Lockdown für alle” Ende November 2021 führte zu einer deutlichen Reduktion von Mobilität, Einkäufen und Kontakten.
Der “Lockdowns für Ungeimpfte”, der bis Ende Jänner 2022 fortgeführt wurde, entfaltete demgegenüber wenig Wirksamkeit. So erhöhte sich die allgemeine Mobilität und das Einkaufen von Gütern jenseits der Grundversorgung im Jänner 2022 für die Gruppe der Ungeimpften ähnlich stark wie für die Gruppe der Geimpften. Allenfalls für das Einkaufsverhalten lässt sich eine schwache Dämpfung der Mobilität bei Ungeimpften erkennen.
Angesichts der steigenden Infektionszahlen verzichteten vor allem Geimpfte im Jänner 2022 auf eine Ausweitung ihrer sozialen Kontakten. Ungeimpfte weiteten demgegenüber ihre Kontakte stärker aus.

Organisation(s)
Department of Economic Sociology, Department of Government
Publication date
02-2022
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
504007 Empirical social research
Keywords
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/f13015b5-607b-4b44-a584-fe9d071ceea4