Welcome to the web pages of AUTNES!

AUTNES (Austrian National Election Study) is a National Research Network engaged in the comprehensive social science analysis of Austrian national elections. The network connects researchers from the Universities of Innsbruck and Vienna and is financed by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF).
AUTNES has the following tasks:

• to establish and institutionalize a national electoral study
• to provide a fully integrated study of the ‘demand side’ (voters) and the ‘supply side’ (political parties) of electoral competition, the media coverage of the campaign, and the dynamics the campaign unfolds
• to make a contribution towards a better understanding of how Austrian democracy works
• to provide high-quality data for the public
• to secure and expand cooperation with the international community of electoral researchers
• to contribute to the establishment of an effective infrastructure for nationally and internationally comparative research
• to promote and support young scientists, and consolidate Austrian academic electoral research