Sylvia Kritzinger

Professor for Methods in the Social Science at the Department of Government (University of Vienna); Co-Director of the Research Network Democracy and Human Rights and the European Research Infrastructure Monitoring Electoral Democracy; Principal Investigator of the Austrian National Election Study (AUTNES - Demand Side) and the European Value Study - Austria; Project Director of the Research Group Interdisciplinary Research into Values; former Assistant Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS-Vienna); former Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Trinity College, Dublin.

Selected Publications: together with W. Lutz and V. Skirbekk: The Demography of Growing European Identity (2006); together with M. Wagner and D. Johann: Voting at 16: Turnout and the Quality of Vote Choice (2012); together with J. Aichholzer, M. Wagner and E. Zeglovits: How has radical right support transformed established political conflicts? The case of Austria (2013); together with S.A. Banducci and H. Giebler: Knowing More from Less: How the Information Environment Increases Knowledge of Party Positions (2017); together with D. Johann, K. Kleinen-von Königslöw and K. Thomas: Intra-Campaign Changes in Voting Preferences: The Impact of Media and Party Communication (2018); together with J. Partheymüller and C. Plescia: Misinformedness About the European Union and the Preference to Vote to Leave or Remain (2022); together with T. Bernauer, D. Jahn, P.M. Kuhn and S. Walter: Einführung in die Politikwissenschaft (2025); together with W. van der Brug: Generations and Age in Electoral Research (2026); together with J. Partheymüller: When Populists Win but Are Excluded From Power: Explaining Post-Electoral Dynamics of Democratic Satisfaction (2026).