Research

Our department comprises seven research areas that are integrated into various research centres and research platforms within the research focus system-framework at the University of Innsbruck. Inform yourself about the thematic orientation of our research areas here:

Empirical Gender Studies
European Integration and European Regional Cooperation
International Relations
Methodology and Methods in Political Science
Civic Education
Political Communication and Media
Political Theory
Comparative Politics
Science Policy Studies and Science Communication

Members of our department collaborate with the following research centres and research platforms at the University of Innsbruck:

Research Center Federalism (Politics and Law)
Research Center Social Theory
Research Center Spheres of Governance: Institutions and Agency | Doctoral Programme Political Institutions and Leadership in a Contingent World
Research Platform Center for Gender Studies Innsbruck (CGI)
Research Platform Organizations & Society

OZP Poster

In addition, the editorial management of the Austrian Journal of Political Science (OZP), published by the Austrian Political Science Association (ÖGPW), is located at the Department of Political Science.