Christina Gahn
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Welcome!
I am a pre-doctoral research fellow at the Chair of Comparative Politics of Thomas M. Meyer at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and a PhD student at the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences (BGSS).
I hold BA and MA degrees in Political Science by the University of Vienna and a BSc (WU) degree in Business, Economics and Social Sciences by the Vienna University of Economics and Business.
From 2016 to 2019 I worked as a research and teaching assistant at the Austrian National Election Study (AUTNES) and the Department of Government (University of Vienna).
My research interests include political parties and party competition, electoral campaigns and political communication.
You can find my current CV here.
Research
Peer-reviewed publication
Does social media enhance party responsiveness? How user engagement shapes parties’ issue attention on Facebook. Party Politics. 2021 - onlinefirst.
(with Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik, Anita Bodlos & Martin Haselmayer)
Dissertation (in progress)
On target – The success and use of targeting issue messages in election campaigns.
supervised by Prof. Thomas M. Meyer, PhD
and Prof. Heike Klüver, PhD
Current projects
How much targeting is too much? The success of targeted campaign messages.
First dissertation paper (data collection)Reporting Margins of Error in public opinion polls and voting
Project (data collection) with Werner Krause
Data
AUTNES Content Analysis of Party Press Releases: Cumulative File (SUF edition). 2021. AUSSDA, V1. (with Wolfgang C. Müller, Anita Bodlos, Martin Dolezal, Nikolaus Eder, Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik, Elisabeth Graf, Martin Haselmayer, Teresa Haudum, Lena Maria Huber, Matthias Kaltenegger, Thomas M. Meyer, Katrin Praprotnik, Verena Reidinger & Anna Katharina Winkler)
AUTNES Content Analysis of Party Manifestos: Cumulative File (SUF edition). 2020. AUSSDA, V1. (with Wolfgang C. Müller, Anita Bodlos, Martin Dolezal, Nikolaus Eder, Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik, Elisabeth Graf, Martin Haselmayer, Teresa Haudum, Lena Maria Huber, Matthias Kaltenegger, Thomas M. Meyer, Katrin Praprotnik, Anna Katharina Winkler & Katharina Wurzer)
Teaching
Comparative Politics and International Relations
Instructor, BA level (digital)
Winter 2020/21, Humboldt Universität zu BerlinPolitical parties and party communication
in comparative perspective
Instructor, BA level (digital)
Summer 2020, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Summer 2021, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Introduction to comparative politics
Teaching assistant (Wolfgang C. Müller), BA level
Summer 2019, University of ViennaQuantitative methods of political science
Teaching assistant (Markus Wagner), BA level
Winter 2018/19, University of Vienna
Public Outreach
Zurück zu den Grünen? [Back to the Greens?]
Vienna Center for Electoral Research (VieCER) Blog. 2020. (with Julia Partheymüller)Wähler*innen-Wanderungen in Österreich: Ein Rückblick. [Looking back on shifts of votes in Austria.] Vienna Center for Electoral Research (VieCER) Blog. 2020. (with Julia Partheymüller, Julian Aichholzer, Verena Reidinger & Lena M. Huber)
Gekaufte Aufmerksamkeit: Facebook-Werbung im Nationalratswahlkampf 2019. [Paid attention: Facebook ads in the Austrian national election campaign 2019.]
Vienna Center for Electoral Research (VieCER) Blog. 2020. (with Lena M. Huber)Die Zukunft der europäischen Integration ist untrennbar mit dem Thema Zuwanderung verknüpft. [The Future of European Integration is Linked to Immigration.]
ÖGfE Policy Brief, 18. 2018. (with Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik)
Contact Information
Christina Gahn
Chair of Comparative Politics -
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Universitätsstraße 3b, Room 416
10117 Berlin
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