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Wolfgang C. Müller

Wolfgang C. Müller

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Political Science
Austria
2026
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Law and Political Science
Austria
2023

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Political Science

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48
Citations
12821
World Ranking
274
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Political Science in Austria Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Political Science in Austria Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Austria Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in Austria Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Law and Political Science in Austria Leader Award

Overview

Wolfgang C. Müller is affiliated with the University of Vienna in Austria. Their research is situated primarily within the social sciences, with a particular focus on political science and international relations. This scholar's work spans 29 publications in social sciences, of which 23 are devoted to political science and international relations. Additional areas of interest include strategy and management, communication, language and linguistics, and public administration.

The main research topics covered by Müller include electoral systems and political participation, political influence and corporate strategies, social policy and reform studies, social media and politics, local government finance and decentralization, populism and right-wing movements, and public administration and political analysis.

Significant publication venues for Müller comprise AUSSDA - The Austrian Social Science Data Archive, with eight publications, West European Politics, Party Politics, Harvard Dataverse, and Comparative Political Studies. Co-authorship is a notable element within Müller's work; frequent collaborators include Thomas M. Meyer, Katrin Praprotnik, Anita Bodlos, Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik, and Matthias Kaltenegger.

Recent papers by Müller, along with their publication years and venues, are as follows:

  • Coalition agreements and governments' policy-making productivity, 2023, West European Politics
  • Ministerial Autonomy, Parliamentary Scrutiny and Government Reform Output in Parliamentary Democracies, 2021, Comparative Political Studies
  • Participation in the administration of elections and perceptions of electoral integrity, 2022, Electoral Studies
  • AUTNES Online Panel Study 2017-2019 (SUF Edition), 2020, AUSSDA - The Austrian Social Science Data Archive
  • How and why party position estimates from manifestos, expert, and party elite surveys diverge: A comparative analysis of the 'left-right' and the 'European integration' dimensions, 2021, Party Politics

Best Publications

  • Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies

    Kaare Strom;Wolfgang C. Müller;Torbjörn Bergman

  • Policy, office, or votes? : how political parties in Western Europe make hard decisions

    Wolfgang C. Müller;Kaare Strøm

  • Coalition Governments in Western Europe

    Wolfgang C. Müller;Kaare Strom

  • Political parties in parliamentary democracies: Making delegation and accountability work

    Wolfgang C. Müller

  • Cabinets and coalition bargaining : The democratic life cycle in Western Europe

    Kaare Strom;Wolfgang C. Müller;Torbjörn Bergman

  • Policy, Office, or Votes?: Political Parties and Hard Choices

    Kaare Strøm;Wolfgang C. Müller

  • The membership of political parties in European democracies, 1960-1990

    Richard S. Katz;Peter Mair;Luciano Bardi;Lars Bille

  • Political Parties and Electoral Change: Party Responses to Electoral Markets

    Peter Mair;Wolfgang C. Müller;Fritz Plasser

  • Democratic Delegation and Accountability : Cross-National Patterns

    Torbjörn Bergman;Wolfgang C Müller;Kaare Strøm;Magnus Blomgren

  • Party rules, party resources and the politics of parliamentary democracies How parties organize in the 21st century

    Thomas Poguntke;Susan E Scarrow;Paul D Webb;Elin H Allern

  • Parliamentary Control of Coalition Governments

    Kaare Strøm;Wolfgang C. Müller;Daniel Markham Smith

  • How parties compete for votes: A test of saliency theory

    Martin Dolezal;Laurenz P. Ennser-Jedenastik;Wolfgang C. Müller;Anna Katharina Winkler

  • The keys to togetherness: Coalition agreements in parliamentary democracies

    Kaare Strøm;Wolfgang C. Müller

  • Parliamentary Democracy : Promise and Problem

    Wolfgang C Müller;Torbjörn Bergman;Kaare Strøm

  • Introduction: Parliamentary democracy and the chain of delegation

    Torbjörn Bergman;Wolfgang C. Müller;Kaare Strøm

  • Meeting the Challenges of Representation and Accountability in Multi-party Governments

    Wolfgang C. Müller;Thomas M. Meyer

  • The Life Cycle of Party Manifestos: The Austrian Case

    Martin Dolezal;Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik;Wolfgang C. Müller;Anna Katharina Winkler

  • Inside the Black Box A Confrontation of Party Executive Behaviour and Theories of Party Organizational Change

    Wolfgang C. Müller

  • Members of Parliament in Western Europe: Roles and Behaviour

    Wolfgang C. Müller;Thomas Saalfeld

  • Coalition theory and cabinet governance : an introduction

    Wolfgang C Müller;Torbjörn Bergman;Kaare Strøm

  • Reshaping the state in Western Europe: The limits to retreat

    Wolfgang C. Müller;Vincent Wright

  • Political Institutions and Linkage Strategies

    Wolfgang C. Müller

  • The Membership of Political Parties in European Democracies

    R. Katz;J. Pierre;T. Poguntke;J. Sundberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Kaare Strøm
Kaare Strøm University of California, San Diego
Hanna Bäck
Hanna Bäck Lund University
Markus Wagner
Markus Wagner University of Vienna
Hajo G. Boomgaarden
Hajo G. Boomgaarden University of Vienna
Richard S. Katz
Richard S. Katz Johns Hopkins University
Marc Debus
Marc Debus University of Mannheim
Gerda Falkner
Gerda Falkner University of Vienna
Peter Mair
Peter Mair European University Institute
Jon Pierre
Jon Pierre University of Gothenburg
Paul Webb
Paul Webb University of Sussex

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