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Welcome!
Welcome!
I am a research fellow (Post-Doc) at the Department of Government at the University of Vienna.
Also, I earned my doctorate in political science at the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
My research interests include political parties and party competition, public opinion polls, electoral campaigns and political communication. In my dissertation, I studied political targeting and tailoring on Social Media in multi-party democracies in Europe.
My work has been published in the European Journal of Political Research, The International Journal of Press/Politics and in Party Politics. I was interviewed by Der Standard and ORF and my research was e.g. covered by Süddeutsche Zeitung and ARD.
News
News
03/25 | Milestone: I started a new position as a PostDoc at the Department of Government!
02/25 | Media: In light of the 2025 federal election, German media are reporting on my (preliminary) study with Werner Krause on the effect of election surveys on the probability of entry to parliament of small parties such as the FDP, Die Linke and BSW: Süddeutsche Zeitung (05.02.), Tagesspiegel (07.02.), MDR (07.02.), Handelsblatt (08.02.), ARD - Bericht aus Berlin (09.02.), Tagesschau (09.02.).
01/25 | Milestone: On January 29th, I successfully defended my dissertation at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin!
Earlier News
Earlier News
09/24 | Media: Live chat about the 2024 Austrian national election campaign at derstandard.at
07/24 | Publication: My first (single-authored) dissertation paper with the title How much tailoring is too much? Voter backlash on highly tailored campaign messages has been published at The International Journal of Press/Politics!
06/24 | Media: ZIB 3 (ORF) Interview about the consequences of the EP elections in Europe and ZIB 1 (ORF) interview about the voting behaviour in Austria at the EP elections.
12/23 - 07/23 | Publication + Media: New publication with the title Should we include margins of error in public opinion polls? in the European Journal of Political Research. We summarized the core findings in blogposts at The Loop (in EN) and Verfassungblog (in GER). This research was discussed in Der Standard, The House Magazine, Deutschlandfunk and the Austrian Parliament.
Contact Information
Contact Information
Christina Gahn
Rooseveltplatz 3, Room 414
1090 Vienna
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