EVaP team members, Ursula Daxecker and Neeraj Prasad present their paper titled "Voting for Violence: Examining Support for Violent Parties in Uttar Pradesh, India", at the 21st Jan Tinbergen European Peace Science Conference (NEPS) in Kings College London, UK.
EVaP team members at the European Political Science Association Conference in Prague. Our Post-doc, Neeraj Prasad presented two papers; "Violence as an Electoral Strategy: Booth Level Evidence from West Bengal" (co-authored with Ursula Daxecker), and "Whatsapping the Theft of an Idol: How Hostile Misinformation Shapes Social Attitudes" (co-authored with Ursula Daxecker & Hanne Fjelde). Neeraj […]
In Indian elections and across the world, there is concern that misinformation, polarisation, or even violence in election campaigns threaten the conduct of free and fair elections. This panel discusses these topics with a focus on the most recent legislative assembly elections in West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh. Two of the panelists, Ursula Daxecker and […]
The EVaP research team hosted a mini-workshop titled "New Research on Politics in the Global South". The workshop featured presentations from the invited speaker; Professor Ashwani Kumar (Tata Institute of Social Science Research); Faculty members- Imke Harbers, Ward Berenschot, and EVaP team members- Ursula Daxecker (PI), Neeraj Prasad (Post-doc), Noyonika Das and Maureen Fubara (Ph.D. […]
EVaP team members will attend the 2022 conference organized by the Conflict Research Society (CRS) at Queen's University, Belfast. Ph.D. candidates Noyonika Das and Maureen Fubara will present solo-authored papers titled "Violence in local elections: Evidence from West Bengal, India" and "The spoils of office and repertoires of election violence in Nigeria", respectively, while PI-Ursula […]
EVaP team members will attend the 2022 APSA annual meeting and exhibition in Montréal Québec, Canada. The PI-Ursula Daxecker and Post-doc-Neeraj Prasad will present their co-authored papers "Voting for violence: Examining support for party violence in Uttar Pradesh, India", and "Poisoning your own well: Misinformation, preferences, and polarization in India". While Ph.D. candidates Noyonika Das […]
On September 29, 2022, EVaP team members, Ursula Daxecker and Neeraj Prasad presented their co-authored paper "Violence as an Electoral Strategy: Booth-Level Evidence from West Bengal, India" at the AFK Empirical Peace and Conflict Research Workshop held in Denmark. The workshop was organized by the German Association for Peace and Conflict Studies (AFK).
At the Political Violence and Democratic Backsliding Conference organized by the WZB Social Science Centre in Berlin, EVaP team members Ursula Daxecker and Neeraj Prasad present joint work on "Voting for Violence: Support for Party Violence in India" on the 6th of October 2022.
The EVaP research team successfully hosted a mini-workshop- "New Research on Politics in Africa" on December 6, 2022, at the Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam. The workshop featured presentations from the invited speakers; Dr. Alex Scacco (WZB Social Science Centre, Berlin); Dr. Megan Turnbull (University of Georgia), AISSR Faculty members, colleagues from Leiden […]
Core members of the EVaP project team- Ursula Daxecker (PI), Neeraj Prasad (Research fellow), Noyonika Das, and Maureen Fubara (PhD candidates) presented working papers at the 2023 International Studies Association Convention in Montreal, Canada.
In preparation for fielding a citizen survey and in-depth elite interviews, the EVaP team in collaboration with Practical Sampling International (PSI) organized a three-day training workshop for over 50 research enumerators and moderators in Lagos, Nigeria. Project team members- Ursula Daxecker (Principal investigator), and Maureen Fubara (PhD candidate) were in attendance.
EPSA’s 13th annual conference took place in Glasgow, Scotland from 22-24 June 2023. EVaP team members- Neeraj Prasad, and Noyonika Das presented working papers on electoral violence in India.