The many faces of GESIS
Vita
Caroline Hahn is research assistant in the German study of the European Social Survey (ESS). In 2017 she completed her masters degree in Empirical Political and Social Research at the University of Stuttgart. Previously, she worked as a trainee in the Statistic and Surveys department at the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights from 2015 to 2016. Her research interests include political representation and inequality.
Publications
Journal article
Hahn, Caroline. 2025. "Closer to the people: the impact of politicians’ working-class affiliation on their ability to evoke feelings of symbolic representation among the general population and the working class." European Political Science Review online first: . doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755773925100192.
Stein, Annika, Tobias Gummer, Elias Naumann, Björn Rohr, Henning Silber, Roman Auriga, Michael Bergmann, Arne Bethmann, Michael Blohm, Carina Cornesse, Pablo Christmann, Mustafa Coban, Jean Philippe Décieux, Britta Gauly, Caroline Hahn, Susanne Helmschrott, Oshrat Hochman, Johannes Lemcke, Dörte Naber, Steffen Pötzschke, Joss Roßmann, Jan-Lucas Schanze, Tobias Schmidt, Silke L. Schneider, Heike Spangenberg, Tobias Rettig, Mark Trappmann, Michael Weinhardt, and Bernd Weiß. 2025. "Education bias in probability-based surveys in Germany: evidence and possible solutions." International Journal of Social Research Methodology online first: . doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13645579.2025.2508889.
Hahn, Caroline. 2022. "The Voice of the Absent? : The Link Between Descriptive and Substantive Representation of the Working Class in Western Europe." Political Studies 72 (2): 527-550. doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/00323217221126668.
Schnaudt, Christian, Caroline Hahn, and Elias Heppner. 2021. "Distributive and Procedural Justice and Political Trust in Europe." Frontiers in Political Science 3 (642232): . doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpos.2021.642232.
Presentation at a conference
Schanze, Jan-Lucas, Caroline Hahn, and Oshrat Hochman. 2024. "Pushing older target persons to the web: Do we still need a paper questionnaire?" GOR 24: General Online Research Conference, Rheinische Fachhochschule Köln, 2024-02-23.
Hahn, Caroline, Jan-Lucas Schanze, Niklas Donth, and Oshrat Hochman. 2023. "Same, Same, Not So Different? Switching the ESS in Germany From Face-to-Face to Self-Completion and Its Implications for Data Quality and Sample Composition." ESRA 2023 Conference, Milano, Italy, 2023-07-18.
Hahn, Caroline. 2019. "Are ideas present when people aren’t? : The relation of numerical and substantive representation of the poor in European parliaments." 9th Annual Conference of the European Political Science Association (EPSA), 20-22 June 2019, Belfast, UK, 2019-06-22.
Hahn, Caroline, and Christian Schnaudt. 2019. "Citizen-elite congruence, political allegiances and political support in Europe." 4th International ESS Conference "Turbulent times in Europe: Instability, insecurity and inequality", 15-17 April 2019, Mannheim, Germany, 2019-04-16.
Hahn, Caroline. 2018. "The Value of Descriptive Representation: Are the interests of the low social classes in Europe adequately represented? ." General Conference of the European Consortium of Political Research (ECPR), 22-25 August 2018, Hamburg, Germany, 2018-08-24.
Hahn, Caroline. 2018. "Unequal political Representation: Measuring the unequal consideration of interests of different social classes in comparative analysis." 27. Wissenschaftlicher Kongress der DVPW, 25-28 September 2018, Frankfurt am Main, Deutschland, 2018-09-27.
Presentation not at a conference
Hahn, Caroline. 2023. "Trust in their Own: How politicians’ socio-economic background affects citizens’ evaluation of and trust in the elite." Fall Academy “Challenging Inequalities II”, Universität Konstanz, Konstanz, 2023-10-04.
Other
Schanze, Jan-Lucas, and Caroline Hahn. 2022. "Klimawandelleugner, Impfskeptiker und Demokratiefeinde: Analysemöglichkeiten des European Social Survey (ESS)." Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld.
Event
Hochman, Oshrat, and Caroline Hahn. 2019. "Turbulent times in Europe: Instability, insecurity and inequality." Fourth International ESS Conference, 2019-04-15 - 2019-04-17.