Christina Gahn
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
- 👇 Let me know if you have any questions on the position, Department or city!
- We (@stawi-univie.bsky.social) are hiring a PhD researcher: - focus: representation, party competition, pol behavior, pol institutions, pol econ, or related - 4 years, starting 1 Oct 26 - 30h/week, incl some teaching - deadline: 28 Jan 26 jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
- Reposted by Christina Gahn🚨📣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
- Reposted by Christina GahnAt 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.
- Reposted by Christina Gahn📢📢 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!
- Reposted by Christina Gahn🎉 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!
- Reposted by Christina Gahn📢 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.
- Reposted by Christina Gahn[This post could not be retrieved]
- 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.
- 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!
- Reposted by Christina Gahn👀 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...
- Reposted by Christina GahnExcited 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
- Reposted by Christina GahnOn 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
- Reposted by Christina GahnScholars 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.🧵
- 📢NEW ARTICLE!📢 🔓 #Italy The disproportional consequences of a proportional bargain: candidate selection within Italian electoral coalitions in 2022 Read the article by Gianni Del Panta, @mattiaguidi.bsky.social and @klingelt.bsky.social here #OpenAccess👇 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
- Reposted by Christina Gahn🚨 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... 1/4 🧵
- Reposted by Christina GahnPlease 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/...
- Reposted by Christina GahnNeue 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
- Reposted by Christina Gahn❗️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
- Reposted by Christina Gahn🚨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.
- Reposted by Christina GahnMigrant 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...
- I‘m very honoured to receive one of the two best PhD prizes of the Austrian Political Science Association @oegpw.bsky.social! 🥳 Big congratulations also to Christoph Ivanusch, two @humboldtuni.bsky.social dissertations winning is a first! Thanks again to everyone supporting me in my PhD journey!
- Awards, awards, awards! 🏆✨ At the 11th Annual @oegpw.bsky.social Conference, three members of the Department of Government @univie.ac.at were among the awardees: 🎓 Best PhD – @christinagahn.bsky.social 📘 Best MA – Benjamin Riesch 📗 Best BA – Luca Conte 👏 Huge congrats to all! 🎉 #PoliSky 🧪
- Reposted by Christina GahnNew publication with @kgattermann.bsky.social : “Does media framing of election results affect whether voters perceive parties as election winners or losers?” @polstudies.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0032... A short 🧵:
- Reposted by Christina GahnA few weeks ago I arrived from fieldwork in Peru, where I was collecting archival data on the internal armed conflict. Today I finally have a new version of this paper examining how the conflict affected and continues to affect the success of female politicians francisca-castro.com/research/wor...
- 💥 Update! 💥 This paper is now officially published in Volume 30, Issue 4 of The International Journal of Press/Politics! 🗳️ Experimental evidence that voters prefer moderately tailored messages - highly tailored ones can backfire & targeting can be too much: doi.org/10.1177/1940... #IJPP
- 🎯 Publication alert! 🎯 Excited to share that my first single-authored dissertation paper is now published at The International Journal of Press/Politics #IJPP 🔓Check out the open access (thanks @univienna) paper here: doi.org/10.1177/1940... 1/2
- Very much looking forward to a great discussion 👇
- Do you want to know more about how parties use social media/internet? The Political Parties' Online Communication Strategies in Election Campaigns panel is at 12pm today, @rdassonneville.bsky.social @zeynsom.bsky.social @christinagahn.bsky.social @jaeheejung.bsky.social @apsa.bsky.social #APSA25
- Reposted by Christina Gahn➡️📍📑 New Working Paper with @sumpierrez.bsky.social and Rainer Bauböck Work on migrant voting rights often has a state-centric perspective. We propose *migrant franchise constellations* as a migrant-centric approach. A 🧵 with our argument and new data! 🗳️ preprints.apsanet.org/engage/apsa/...
- On my way to Vancouver 🇨🇦 for my first @apsa.bsky.social ! 🥳 Starting off with the @polcomm.bsky.social Preconfoerence tomorrow presenting a new project with @klingelt.bsky.social on „The Geography of Electioneering in Multi-Party Systems: Evidence from Campaign Poster Locations in Central Berlin“
- 📢 Still time to register for the 2025 APSA Political Communication Preconference! ⏳ Almost full. Sign up today! It is ✨free✨! 📌 10 Sept 2025 | Simon Fraser Univ, Vancouver shorturl.at/UDUcr
- … and on Saturday at 12pm PDT I’ll present joint work with @meinungsfuehrer.bsky.social on targeting issue messages in online campaigns 🎯 It’s part of a panel on Political Parties’ Online Communication Strategies in Election Campaigns organized by @zeynsom.bsky.social 👇👀 tinyurl.com/ypujwc5l
- I’m also chairing a panel on "Party Adaptation" (Sat, 8am PDT) and discussing papers on "Candidate Traits, Cues, and Electability" (Thu, 8am PDT). Many thanks to @oegpw.bsky.social, ÖFG, and @apsa.bsky.social for funding this trip 🙏 If you’re in Vancouver and want to meet up - let me know! 🇨🇦
- Very happy and thankful that @michaelimre.bsky.social and I received some funding for our project "Gender in the Journals Revisited: A Comprehensive Look at Trends Across Five Decades" by @apsa.bsky.social!
- Here are some preliminary results from the project, which I will talk about again at the "20th Anniversary Roundtable: Politics and Gender and Political Science" at the @apsa.bsky.social Annual Meeting on September 14th! bsky.app/profile/chri...
- Excited to kick off #EPSA2025 on Day 1, Panel 1! 🎉 I’ll present my co-authored research with @michaelimre.bsky.social on 50 years of gender representation in political science publications. We analyze nearly 100,000 articles across 72 journals to uncover long-term trends. 🔍 @epsanet.bsky.social
- 🚨 Neue Veröffentlichung! 🚨 Im sogenannten “Election Report” schauen wir uns die Nationalratswahl 2024 nochmal aus wissenschaftlicher Perspektive an und bereiten sie mit aktuellen Daten auf 🇦🇹🗳️🤝 📄 Lest hier: doi.org/10.1080/0140...
- 🚨 New publication alert! 🚨 "From crisis governance to electoral normality and the longest coalition negotiations: the 2024 Austrian parliamentary election" 🇦🇹🗳️🤝 📄 Read here: doi.org/10.1080/0140... By Manuel Scharrer, @janabernhard.bsky.social, @marvins.bsky.social, @schnizzl.bsky.social and me
- Wichtigste Ergebnisse: 🧐 💡 Migration wurde wieder zu einem zentralen Thema für Wähler:innen. 💡 Die FPÖ wurde erstmals stärkste Partei, blieb aber außerhalb der Regierung. 💡 Nach rekordlangen Verhandlungen bildeten ÖVP, SPÖ & NEOS die erste 3-Parteien-Koalition seit 1947. Mehr Details im Thread 👇🧵
- Hintergrund: 📜 🏝️ Die "Ibiza-Affäre" 2019 brachte die ÖVP-FPÖ-Koalition zu Fall. 🌍 COVID-19, niedrige Impfquoten und Inflation prägten die Legislaturperiode. ⚖️ Spannungen: Führungsprobleme und politische Konflikte belasteten die ÖVP-Grünen-Koalition, die dennoch die volle Amtszeit überstand.
-
View full thread📄 Lest die Studie hier: doi.org/10.1080/0140... Danke an alle, die diese Forschung unterstützt haben. 🙏 Diese Arbeit wurde durch die AUTNES-Daten ermöglicht – download hier: data.aussda.at/dataverse/au... 📊 ...und entdeckt das interaktive Dashboard: autnesdashboard.univie.ac.at:3838/autnes/
- 🚨 New publication alert! 🚨 "From crisis governance to electoral normality and the longest coalition negotiations: the 2024 Austrian parliamentary election" 🇦🇹🗳️🤝 📄 Read here: doi.org/10.1080/0140... By Manuel Scharrer, @janabernhard.bsky.social, @marvins.bsky.social, @schnizzl.bsky.social and me
- Key findings: 🧐 💡 Migration re-emerged as a key voter issue. 💡 FPÖ became the largest party for the first time but stayed out of government. 💡 After record-long talks, ÖVP, SPÖ & NEOS formed Austria's first 3-party coalition since WWII. More detail in thread 👇🧵
- Background: 📜 🏝️ The 2019 "Ibiza affair" toppled the ÖVP-FPÖ coalition 🌍 Crises: COVID-19, low vaccination rates, and inflation from the Ukraine war dominated the term. ⚖️ Tensions: Leadership scandals and policy disputes strained the ÖVP-Green coalition but it lasted the full term
-
View full thread📄 Read the full paper here: doi.org/10.1080/0140... A big thank you to everyone who supported this research. 🙏 This work was made possible by AUTNES data - explore it here: data.aussda.at/dataverse/au... 📊 ...and check out the interactive dashboard: autnesdashboard.univie.ac.at:3838/autnes/
- Reposted by Christina GahnFeels like a good time to share this call for papers. Can't wait for EPSS 2026!
- Reposted by Christina Gahn🚨New Publication Perceptions of Science and Politics During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Austria: Technocratic Overreach or Blame Deflection? 🧪 By @schnizzl.bsky.social, @jamoeberl.bsky.social & Alexander Bogner ➡️ doi.org/10.1007/s116... 🧵1/10
- A few months ago @klarapernsteiner.bsky.social and I noticed something was off. The corrigendum now also includes @stawi-univie.bsky.social: "Table 1: Recent citations: the University of Vienna enters at #9 (11,144). Table 2: Recent citations: enters at #6 (293)" :) doi.org/10.1017/S104...
- Now online! "Our data suggest...increased geographic diversity in the generation of research output, revealing a movement toward a more balanced representation between North American and European departments..." doi.org/10.1017/S104...
- Reposted by Christina GahnFound my way to Seoul at #IPSA2025 this year 🇰🇷 I'm presenting research on (1) ad delivery algorithms in a large scale cooperative audit study and (2) targeting strategies used by political campaigns all over the world (50 countries!) in super election year 2024. Be there or be square! ⬜️
- Reposted by Christina Gahnscience.orf.at/stories/3231... Nice German-language summary of the recent paper by @turnbulldugarte.com and me - perfect Sommerloch material!
- Reposted by Christina Gahn🎉🎉🎉 Immensly proud of @jzmarlier.bsky.social who yesterday defended her PhD thesis on independent politicians in representive democracy, co-supervised by @markuswagner.bsky.social and myself. Big thanks to the committee @eribertsou.bsky.social, @jbpilet.bsky.social & @chriswratil.bsky.social!!
- Reposted by Christina Gahn📣 Call for Applications 📣 3-year Postdoc position in Berlin 🚀 Join our Comparative Political Behavior Group at @humboldtuni.bsky.social & the @humboldt-govlab.bsky.social Great people, great projects, great city – come work with us! 🗓️ Deadline: 31 July 2025
- Reposted by Christina Gahn📝🧵 New Publication ✨ My paper on multi-option referendums is now available open access in @cpsjournal.bsky.social If you are interested in referendum design and/or immigrant enfranchisement and/or multi-method work, read on...
- Reposted by Christina GahnDoing important things at @epsanet.bsky.social …like locating the one veg canapé at the reception 👀 @stawi-univie.bsky.social @bseisl.bsky.social @mkaltenegger.bsky.social @alexanderdalheimer.bsky.social @marvins.bsky.social @elenaheinz.bsky.social @mascakir.bsky.social @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social
- Reposted by Christina GahnYesterday EPSS was founded, today we answer members’ questions. A 🧵 1. Who formed EPSS? EPSS was founded by a supermajority vote of the EPSA Council, made up of 3 EPSAL shareholders & 9 elected, appointed, or ex officio members. 1/
- Reposted by Christina Gahn🚨 Big News for European Political Science 🚨 We’re thrilled to announce the launch of the European Political Science Society (EPSS): a new, member-led, not-for-profit association built to support our scholarly community. 🔗 epssnet.org Here’s a thread with everything you need to know. 🧵
- Packed panel kicked off by @lenamariahuber.bsky.social on group identities in political competition. 🙌 #EPSA2025 @epsanet.bsky.social
- Reposted by Christina GahnI took a closer look at the program #EPSA2024 and found some interesting trends – there seem to be more US based scholars than last year 🇺🇸 @epsanet.bsky.social A thread on this year's authors and affiliations 🧵
- Awesome lineup from @stawi-univie.bsky.social @univie.ac.at at #EPSA2025 ! Check out all the cool research happening at our department 👇👀 @epsanet.bsky.social
- From 26 to 28 June 2025, the 15th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association will take place in Madrid, Spain. Many of our colleagues will attend the conference and present their research. #EPSA2025. The presenters are: 🧵 1/3
- Reposted by Christina GahnHeading soon to #EPSA2025 🎉with 3 papers: 🧠 w/ @mkaltenegger.bsky.social @laurenzennser.bsky.social When do parties want experts and when do they want outsiders? We unpack parties' strategic appointments in response to crises. Come see our new measure of expertise Thursday at 13:10 (Room 0A.10) 🧠
- Excited to kick off #EPSA2025 on Day 1, Panel 1! 🎉 I’ll present my co-authored research with @michaelimre.bsky.social on 50 years of gender representation in political science publications. We analyze nearly 100,000 articles across 72 journals to uncover long-term trends. 🔍 @epsanet.bsky.social
- Preliminary findings: 1️⃣ Solo-male authorship is declining, with mixed-gender teams now the norm. 2️⃣ All-female authorship plateaued after the mid-2000s. 3️⃣ Gender disparities persist, especially in specific sub-fields. More details (and plenty of graphs!) in my presentation—swing by! 📊✨
