The many faces of GESIS
Vita
I am managing the change process for the initiative to develop a new, integrated data collection platform at GESIS. I hold fixed virtual office hours every Thursday from 11:00 to 12:00.
Before joining GESIS, I was a Research and Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence. Moreover, I worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at Ghent University (FWO Fellow) and participated in the BMBF-funded research project ProConEU, based at the Geschwister-Scholl-Institute of Political Science at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) München.
You can find more details about my CV and research on my personal website or Google Scholar profile.
Research
My research interest lies in the study of public attitudes towards the EU with a special focus on transnational solidarity. In addition, I am interested in electoral research and political attitudes in democratic regimes. My research has already been published in a number of edited volumes as well as in the Journals Comparative European Politics, European Political Science Review, European Union Politics, German Politics, Government and Opposition, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of European Integration, Journal of European Public Policy, Political Communication, Political Geography, Political Research Exchange, Representation, Social Indicators Research, West European Politics, and Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft.
Publications
Journal article
Schelkle, Waltraud, Ann-Kathrin Reinl, and Joris Frese. 2026. "Change against the odds: crisis policy feedback in a politicised EU." Journal of European Public Policy 2026: 1-26. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2025.2612583.
Hartland, Alex, Daniela Braun, Giuseppe Carteny, Rosa M. Navarette, and Ann-Kathrin Reinl. 2026. "The role of key European issues in the 2024 election campaign." West European Politics 49 (1): 265-292. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01402382.2025.2498838.
Nasr, Mohamed, and Ann-Kathrin Reinl. 2026. "United in Difficult Times? Investigating Party Communication on EU Solidarity." Political Communication 43 (1): 18-42. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10584609.2025.2506117.
Reinl, Ann-Kathrin. 2025. "From fear to support? The role of benefit guarantees in EU multilevel welfare governance." European Union Politics 26 (3): 617-636. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/14651165251340208.
Cartney, Giuseppe, Alexander Hartland, Daniela Braun, and Ann-Kathrin Reinl. 2025. "Party competition on European issues in the 2024 EP elections." Italian Journal of Electoral Studies 88 (1): 21–33. doi: https://doi.org/10.36253/qoe-17373.
Presentation at a conference
Reinl, Ann-Kathrin. 2026. "Out of the dark? Public awareness of the EU’s social turn ." Special Issue Workshop: A multi-level analysis of the EU’s social turn, Universität Konstanz, 2026-01-20.
Reinl, Ann-Kathrin, Alexander Hartland, and Daniela Braun. 2025. "Meso-level Triggers of Non-Electoral Political Engagement." Jahrestagung des DVPW-Arbeitskreises „Wahlen und politische Einstellungen“ 2025, FU Berlin, 2025-09-18.