@christinagahn
Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Vienna. Dr in Political Science from Humboldt University of Berlin Political science, political communication, electoral campaigns, targeting, party competition, public opinion polls https://christina.gahn.at
🎉 New paper out in Political Behavior (with @gijsschumacher.bsky.social & @mrooduijn.bsky.social)
Why do some people feel stronger emotions about politics than others?
💡Not political knowledge, but interest and confidence-in-knowledge drive emotional engagement.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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This was one of the classes I wished I was a student again to join! 👇👇
The outside of the Austrian parliament building with a tall flagpole in the front and a blue sky in the background. ©Jerome Dufek
The 2024 Austrian parliamentary elections made history: the far-right FPÖ became the strongest party for the first time, and Austria saw its longest-ever government formation, ending in the first three-party coalition since 1947. 📜
Curious? Find out more in our blog: tinyurl.com/2k5dptuc
👇 Let me know if you have any questions on the position, Department or city!
🚨📣Very excited to announce our Online INCONEX Kick-Off Workshop on December 12 from 13:45 to 17:45 (CET)!
We have a great line-up of paper presentations and a fantastic roundtable. Everyone is welcome!
👉 Sign up here: bit.ly/inconex_workshop
@erc.europa.eu #PoliticalScience #Representation
At the recent Zweitstimme.org Workshop on Elections, Public Opinion & Elite Behaviour at the Hertie School, researchers from across Europe shared new insights on elites, participation and polling, highlighting how data, methodology and communication are reshaping the study of democratic politics.
Wow!!! Congratulations 🥳
📢📢 Happy to announce a new update to the PPEG database!
The data now covers
- > 3.000 parties
- 1.100 parliamentary elections
- 402 presidential elections
- 2.044 cabinets
across 73 countries (1945 - 2025, Oct 31).
All info: ppeg.wzb.eu
We hope that data is helpful to the community!
🎉 Kicking off the Zweitstimme.org Workshop!
We’re looking forward to two days discussing new work on Elections, Public Opinion & Elite Behaviour.
Today’s sessions:
👉 Panel I – Elites
👉 Panel II – Participation
👉 Panel III – Party Strategies
Huge thanks to @hertieschool.bsky.social for hosting us!
📢 New paper out! How do partnership constellations relate to poverty in Germany?
Together with @emstruffolino.bsky.social, we examine different-sex partnerships and how low education and non-employment cluster, distinguishing non-migrants, descendants of migrants, and EU vs. non-EU migrants.
Yes, see descriptively here bsky.app/profile/chri...
Thank you! Not yet on the full sample but hopefully soon :) but once we have that, we are happy to send it to you!
Using geolocated data from 10,000+ posters in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg during the 2025 German federal election, we explore where parties place posters - and why.
Preliminary results suggest that parties mostly use them for mobilization. Looking forward to all feedback! Thanks for inviting me!
I‘m excited to take part in the
@zweitstimme.bsky.social Workshop on Elections, Public Opinion & Elite Behavior at the @hertieschool.bsky.social this week! I'll be presenting first results from a project with @klingelt.bsky.social on the Geography of Electioneering in Multi-Party Systems.
Screenshot of the 2025 ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects in Political Sciences. The table shows ETH Zurich ranked #31, Johns Hopkins University at #32, Leiden University and the University of Vienna tied at #33, and University College London at #35.
👀 Political Sciences at University of Vienna ranked #33 worldwide... www.shanghairanking.com/rankings/gra...
@univie.ac.at #rankings
Im Oktober erschien in den Salzburger Nachrichten (@sn.at) ein Artikel von @irisbonavida.bsky.social zu personalisierter Onlinewerbung mit Kommentaren von mir. Darin verweise ich auf aktuelle Forschung von Kolleg*innen sowie auf Ergebnisse meines eigenen Experiments: doi.org/10.1177/1940...
Excited to present ongoing work from my @dfg.de project "Powerful Polls" @uni-muenster.de on Wednesday (w/ @christinagahn.bsky.social).
Say hello if you are in Münster!
Thanks for the invite & the fabulous organization @danbischof.bsky.social, @elenaleuschner.bsky.social & @mwegemann.bsky.social.
On Wednesday, the brilliant @krausewe.bsky.social will join us in Münster to present work w @christinagahn.bsky.social on opinion polls and elections! We are so thrilled!
You can join via Zoom: uni-ms.zoom-x.de/j/62265873291
co-organized @danbischof.bsky.social + @mwegemann.bsky.social y.social
Scholars have long paid attention to disproportionality between parties’ votes and seats emerging from the electoral system. In @sespjournal.bsky.social, Gianni Del Panta, @mattiaguidi.bsky.social, and I show that disproportionality can also be a by-product of pre-electoral coalition formation.🧵
🚨 Job Alert! Postdoc in POLITICAL TEXT ANALYSIS in the MULTIREP project
You do quant text analysis? You are interested in political representation? Enjoy working in teams? Would like to live in a great city? Consider joining us in Vienna!
⏱️ Apply by 15/12/2025
wratil.eu/files/MULTIR...
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Please share!: Last week to apply for @epssnet.bsky.social Belfast 2026
really good news is that there's been an amazing response to the call for papers already; now very excited for this meeting
⬇️ We put together a quick FAQ on Qs that have come up on submitting: epssnet.org/conferences/...
Haha, this brings back memories of @klingelt.bsky.social and me walking 20,000 steps a day to manually collect campaign posters in Germany this February (which I'm currently analyzing 😉).
Balkendiagramm aus der FWF-Studie 2025 zur Situation des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses. Zur Aussage „Die Karriereperspektiven sind zu unsicher“ (Wert 5) stimmen 64 % voll und ganz und 18 % eher zu (Wert 4).
Balkendiagramm aus der FWF-Studie 2025 zu Reformvorschlägen im Wissenschaftssystem. 91 % befürworten den Ausbau unbefristeter Stellen unterhalb der Professur (davon 76 % voll und ganz + 15 % eher).
Neue FWF-Studie (vorgestellt im Sept.) zu Postdocs bestätigt, was wir seit Jahren sagen:
- 82 % finden die Karriereperspektiven zu unsicher,
- 91 % fordern mehr unbefristete Stellen unterhalb der Professur.
Das Problem ist bekannt – wann wird es endlich gelöst? 🤷♀️
#IchBinHanna @nuwiss.bsky.social
❗️Please share widely:
TT position in migration/citizenship/identity at IPW @univie.ac.at: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T...
Deadline: 10 Dec 2025
Congrats! 🥳
Wohoo, congratulations! Very well deserved 💐🥳🎓
🚨New paper out in @jeppjournal.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1080/1350...
@manuelwagner.bsky.social & I re-conceptualize class representation to take into account social mobility between classes and variation in how individuals enter politics.
Migrant Electoral Rights Dataset (1960-2020)
📊 Link to dataset: hdl.handle.net/1814/93661
📕 Link to codebook: cadmus.eui.eu/server/api/c...
💼 Link to 400 page documentation: cadmus.eui.eu/server/api/c...
Dankeschön! 🙏