Niklas Haehn

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I am a PhD student in Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. Prior to starting my PhD, I was a Postgraduate Associate and CSAP Predoctoral Fellow working with Shiro Kuriwaki and Josh Kalla at the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University.

My research centers on political communication and mass media. I am especially interested in media pluralism and the effects of media on political behavior, particularly political knowledge and information, voting behavior, and polarization. Methodologically, I am committed to causal identification and measurement, combining research designs for observational data with computational tools such as video, photo, and text as data, large language models, and formal theory.

I hold an MSc in Political Economy from the University of Konstanz and a BA in Political Science and Public Law from the University of Mannheim. Prior to graduate school, I worked as Managing Editor at the peer-reviewed journal European Union Politics, as a data scientist at PD-Berater der oeffentlichen Hand, and as a research assistant at New York University.