New book available

31.10.2013

This book is a comprehensive study of long and short term factors influencing Austrians’ vote choices. In doing so, it makes use of new data sets collected within the newly established Austrian National Election Study (AUTNES).

Sylvia Kritzinger / Eva Zeglovits / Michael S. Lewis-Beck / Richard Nadeau (2013): The Austrian Voter. Vienna University Press.

This book is a comprehensive study of long and short term factors influencing Austrians’ vote choices. In doing so, it makes use of new data sets collected within the newly established Austrian National Election Study (AUTNES). Thus, the book adds to existing literature in several aspects: First, unlike previous snap-shot analyses, it provides a longitudinal perspective as our analyses cover the period of 1986–2008, a time span that witnesses major changes in the Austrian party system. Second, for the last Austrian election in 2008, vote choice is analysed, following the theoretical concept of the funnel of causality.