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Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · 11d

Dankeschön! 🙏

Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you!

Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · 12d

Thanks :)

Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · 12d

Thank you!

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Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · 12d

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!

Institut für Staatswissenschaft / Department of Government @stawi-univie.bsky.social · 12d

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 🧪

Two award recipients stand smiling in front of an ÖGPW banner. Both hold rolled certificates. The banner reads “Österreichische Gesellschaft für Politikwissenschaft – Das Netzwerk für Politikwissenschaft in Österreich. Vernetzen. Fördern.”

Slide projected on a screen with the heading “PhD Awards 2025.” On the left, text reads: Christina Gahn, Universität Wien. Supervisor: Thomas Meyer. Title: Debunking the Myth of Targeted and Tailored Political Advertising. On the right, a portrait of Christina Gahn smiling, wearing a dark blue top.

A large screen displays a slide titled “Master Awards 2025.” The slide shows a portrait of Benjamin Riesch smiling, with text: Benjamin Riesch, Universität Wien. Supervisor: Laurenz Ennser-Jedenastik. Title: Negative Campaigning in the Austrian National Election. In the foreground, three people stand at a lectern in a lecture hall, with empty chairs and glasses on the table.

A large screen shows a slide titled “Bachelor Awards 2025.” The slide includes a portrait of Luca Conte smiling with arms crossed, and text: Luca Conte, Universität Wien. Supervisor: Katharina Pfaff. Title: How Experiencing Climate Change Affects Climate Change Attitudes in Austria. In the foreground, three presenters stand at a lectern in a lecture hall with chairs and glasses on a table.

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Thomas M. Meyer @thomasmmeyer.bsky.social · 13d

New 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...

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Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · 13d

I might steal this one 👀

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Francisca Castro @fcastrog.bsky.social · 17d

A 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...

francisca-castro.com

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Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · 22d

💥 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

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Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · 25d

Very much looking forward to a great discussion 👇

APSA- Political Organizations & Parties Section @apsa-pop.bsky.social · 25d

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

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Klaudia Wegschaider @wegschaider.bsky.social · 29d

➡️📍📑 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/...

The expansion of voting rights beyond territory and citizenship marks a major democratic development of the last fifty years. Migrant suffrage has been mostly studied from a state-centric perspective. But the rights that migrants hold emerge from specific combinations of the country of residence and the country of citizenship. From this migrant-centric perspective, what is the diagnosis of the spread and status of global migrant suffrage? We present franchise constellations as a migrant-centric framework for studying voting rights. Drawing on the most comprehensive dataset on migrant electoral rights, combined with novel data on nationality-specific restrictions, we compute almost 1.3 million dyad-year observations based on 172 countries between 1960 and 2020. Using migrant stock data, we find that at least 74 million migrants remained completely disenfranchised in 2020. Bilateral and multilateral efforts emerge as a fruitful path for addressing global migrant disenfranchisement.

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Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · 29d

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! 🇨🇦

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Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · 29d

… 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

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Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · 29d

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“

APSA & ICA Political Communication Divisions @polcomm.bsky.social · Aug 26

📢 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

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Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · Sep 4

Wow, gratuliere Constantin! 🥳

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Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · Aug 26

I feel you. It worked okay for me when I converted the PDF with Acrobat Pro to Word but I also always wondered if there is really no better way.

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Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · Aug 26

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...

Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · Jun 24

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

Proportion of Papers by Year and Team Type

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Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · Aug 26

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!

APSA @apsa.bsky.social · Aug 25

Meet Christina Gahn and Michael Imre, 2025 Advancing Research Grants for Early Career Scholars Recipients

Project Title: Gender in the Journals Revisited: A Comprehensive Look at Trends Across Five Decades Christina Gahn, University of Vienna Christina Gahn is a postdoctoral researcher in the…

Meet Christina Gahn and Michael Imre, 2025 Advancing Research Grants for Early Career Scholars Recipients

Project Title: Gender in the Journals Revisited: A Comprehensive Look at Trends Across Five Decades Christina Gahn, University of Vienna Christina Gahn is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Government at the University of Vienna (Austria). She earned her doctorate in political science from the Berlin Graduate School of Social Sciences at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany) in 2025. Her research focuses on political parties, electoral campaigns, and public opinion polls, with her work published in journals such as the…

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Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · Aug 13

📄 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/

From crisis governance to electoral normality and the longest coalition negotiations: the 2024 Austrian parliamentary election

The 2024 Austrian parliament election reflects both continuity and transformation within the political landscape of the country. Following a turbulent inter-election period marked by multiple crise...

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Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · Aug 13

Die Regierungsbildung: 🤝

🕒 Nach 155 Tagen (der längsten in der öst. Geschichte) bildeten ÖVP, SPÖ und NEOS die erste 3-Parteien-Koalition seit 1947.
❌ Die FPÖ, obwohl stärkste Partei, wurde von der Regierung ausgeschlossen.
⚖️ Die neue Koalition fand hohe Zustimmung bei ihren Unterstützer:innen.

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Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · Aug 13

Die Ergebnisse: 📊

🇦🇹 FPÖ erstmals stärkste Partei (Erholung von Verlusten 2019), ÖVP und Grüne mit starken Verlusten.
💉 Besseres FPÖ-Ergebnis in Regionen mit niedrigen Impfquoten, aber Pandemie spielte nur eine begrenzte Rolle.
🌆 Städtisch-ländliche und demografische Spaltung vertieft.

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Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · Aug 13

Der Wahlkampf: 📢

😴 Trotz turbulenter Vorgeschichte verlief der Wahlkampf 2024 überraschend unspektakulär.
♻️ Wichtige Themen für Wähler:innen waren Inflation, Migration, Sozialpolitik und Klima.
🌊 Eine schwere Überschwemmung lenkte den Fokus auf Krisenmanagement und verstärkte die Klimadebatte.

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Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · Aug 13

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.

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Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · Aug 13

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 👇🧵

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Christina Gahn @christinagahn.bsky.social · Aug 13

🚨 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...

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