The Elections, Violence, and Parties (EVaP) project is organizing a mini-workshop on “New Research on Electoral Politics in India” on Thursday, 29th June, 9:30 a.m.– 12:00 p.m. in the Political Science common room (REC B 9.22) at the University of Amsterdam. The program includes Zaad Mahmood as our featured speaker and work in progress from […]
EVaP in collaboration with ACCS hosted a book talk for Niloufer Siddiqui's - Under the Gun: Political Parties and Violence in Pakistan at the Department of Political Science common room in the University of Amsterdam. Read the book abstract and follow Niloufer's work here
The program details are included in the flyer.
The program details are included in the flyer.
The EVaP team members attended the 2023 APSA Annual Meeting and Exhibition - Rights and Responsibilities in an Age of Mis- and Disinformation, held at the Los Angeles Convention Centre in Los Angeles, CA, United States. PI-Ursula Daxecker and research fellow Neeraj Prasad presented co-authored papers "Poisoning your own well: Misinformation, issue entrepreneurship, and voter […]
EVaP team members attended the Conflict Research Society Annual Conference- Return of the Inter-State War or New Hybrid Reality? The Impact of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine on Conflict Research and Practice. PhD candidate, Maureen Fubara presented working paper "Rents, subnational incumbents, and electoral violence in Nigeria", while Noyonika Das presented working paper "Violence in […]
Organizers: Ursula Daxecker (University of Amsterdam), Neeraj Prasad (University of Amsterdam), and Andrea Ruggeri (University of Oxford). We invite interested colleagues to submit extended abstracts (2 pages, including a proposed research design), pre-analysis plans, or full papers. The deadline for submissions is Friday, September 29, 2023. Submit your proposals here: https://forms.gle/MVg7uZV27QPNPqkS9 We will notify selected papers approximately two weeks after the deadline; one […]
PI, Ursula Daxecker presented work-in-progress on the logic of electoral violence at the Global Conference jointly organized by the European Union Foreign Policy Instrument and the United Nations Development Programme. The Global Conference centred on the theme of the Sustaining Peace during Electoral Processes “SELECT” Project with a focus on Information Integrity and Inclusive Elections […]
EVaP in collaboration with ACCS, hosted a book talk for Steven C. Rosenzweig's new book, Voter backlash and elite misperception: the logic of violence in electoral competition, in the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam. Read the book abstract and follow Steven's work here
The EVaP research team hosted a mini-workshop, "New Research on Politics in Africa," on Friday, December 1st, 2023, at the Department of Political Science, University of Amsterdam. The workshop featured presentations from the invited speaker: Professor Shola Omotola (Federal University, Oye-Ekiti); AISSR faculty members, colleagues from Leiden University; and EVaP team members, Ursula Daxecker (PI), […]
On January 15, 2024, Ursula Daxecker, the project supervisor of the EVaP project, delivered a guest lecture titled "Democracy and Conflict: Opposites and Complements" at the Observer Research Foundation in India. Read more about the conference here
The EVaP project, in collaboration with the Oxford Conflict Peace and Security Hub, organized a two-day Special Issue workshop titled 'Political Violence in Democracies'. The workshop featured excellent papers from participants. View the workshop programme here