Freiheits Akademie (Oesterreich)

Freiheits Akademie (Oesterreich)
founded in the year	2012
City	Vienna
Country	Austria
Website	http://www.freiheits-akademie.at
address	Institut für höhere politische und wirtschaftliche Forschung und Bildung, Schottenring 16, 1010 Wien
founder	Dieter Zakel
Virtual Networks A "Virtual Network" is a group of Think Tanks identified by certain semantic and normative (ideological) commonalities (e.g. climate change scepticism). Such a virtual network constitutes a research field that differs from the study of formal networks. Formal networks are real in the sense of officially acknowledged and immediately open to empirical validation. Virtual networks on the other hand display shared ideas. Social network analysis tools can be applied to find out if or to what extent virtual networks are real networks that display linkages (membership in networks, personnel, resources etc.). Unconnected think tanks in turn can be considered special cases in need of explanation independent from network structures (unless we have to assume invisible, hidden or covered ties).	Think Tanks in Austria (case study), Austerity politics
Last revision	5.12.2014

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Organizational Structure and Funding

Address

Institut für höhere politische und wirtschaftliche Forschung und Bildung, Schottenring 16, 1010 Wien

People

Executive board

People leading the Think Tank in the day to day business (CEOs, directorates etc.).

• Georg Traar, director

• Mathias Brucker, vicepresident

• Ingeborg Knaipp, (former) president

• Dieter Zakel, president

• Markus Fichtinger, treasurer

Topics

We used the DGs of the EU to generate a basic list of topics. This list is going to be steadily extended. However we try to preserve a persistent list of topics.

Semantic Fields

What we call here a semantic field is the idea to categorize think tanks in a two level system. The first levels are so called 'Virtual Networks' and the second are the semantic fields. Accordingly every semantic field entered here has to be attached to a virtual network. If you would like to follow a special phenomenon among think tanks please contact us and we are going to add a new virtual network. Semantic fields are topics that promote a virtual network. Lets take climate change as an example: 'climate change skeptics' is the virtual network and 'adaption instead of mitigation' would be one possible semantic field.

• Reduction of public expenditures (Austerity Politics): argues against the extension of the public resp. governmental economic domain, higher taxes etc.

• Reduction of public expenditures (Austerity Politics): reasons for and demands reductions of public pension payments