Does parliamentary representation curb or fuel right-wing street violence?

🥪 Join our Amsterdam Centre for Conflict Studies lunch lecture, on representation & right-wing violence with Felix Haass and explore the nexus between democracy, elections & extremism.

🗓️2 May
⏲️12:00

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Looking forward to my talk on Thursday!

Farewell dinner with my fantastic mentor & chair Sebastian Galiani. In June, I will move back to India, and will join Azim Premji University (Bengaluru) as Assistant Professor (Economics) in 2025. Over the next year, I will be in Chennai, working with Karthik Muralidharan.Excited and blessed!

Premiering now! ashutosh Yashwant Deshmukh 🇮🇳 Satya Hindi

Got fantastic comments from the UCL Conflict & Change group on my book project w/ Neeraj - the breadth and depth of feedback was extraordinary. Thanks Kristin M. Bakke for the invite & everyone for attending! European Research Council (ERC) AISSR

Congratulations Dr Batra

That’s most kind, The Fletcher School ! And I am just as proud of the international grounding you gave me.

He started his career with the “Nehru-Gandhi” family and he cannot leave “Sonia Gandhi”. Perhaps, the Indian National Congress is just incidental to this story. The next master stroke would be to get Sonia Gandhi to move to BJP

The Difficulty & Compulsion of being Nitish Kumar

my take on the emerging politics in Bihar and nationally --

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My paper 'Civil war and state support for conventional arms control' is now available at Conflict Management & Peace Science. It explores the relationship between, well, civil war and state support for conventional arms control. See below for the abstract and here for the paper: doi.org/10.1177/073889…

🗣️ हमारे साथ जुड़ें एक बेहद महत्त्वपूर्ण चर्चा में, जिसका विषय है - 'लोकतंत्र और संघर्ष: विरोधाभासी या पूरक?' ORF (@SNiranjansahoo) और एम्सटर्डम यूनिवर्सिटी (@uedaxecker) के विशेषज्ञों के साथ, 15 जनवरी, 2024 को शाम 3 बजे.

अभी पंजीकरण करें: tinyurl.com/4493yrn8…

ORF is hosting Prof Ursula Daxecker on a topic of great relevance 'Democracy and Conflict - Opposites or Complements? '. Please register #Democracy #Peace #Conflicts orfonline.org/event/democrac… via ORF

How the BJP's use of seva creates the conditions for women to enter the political sphere // Based on my research in Rajasthan

🚨Dark Politics is now out at Oxford University Press in paperback, hardcover, ebook

Feeling that politics is getting dark? We have a book for ya

We investigate dark personality traits in politicians worldwide, and why they matter - for voters, elections, and democracy

mini🧵(& voucher!)

🎓 Ambitious researchers wanted for individual projects! Join our AISSR PhD program, part of the faculty UvA Maatschappij & Gedrag & UvA Amsterdam

5 fully funded positions available. We welcome diversity in disciplines, topics, and methods. Read more & apply here 👇

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The Violence, Instability, and Peace Workshop welcomes submissions for our Spring '24 series!

Do you have a paper or research design on a related topic that you want to workshop?

We'd love to hear from you! Deadline Jan 4. More details 👇 and here: vip-workshop.github.io

Thanks Steve Rosenzweig (@scrosenzweig.bsky.social) for presenting your new book on electoral violence and voter backlash at the Amsterdam Center for Conflict Studies today - we enjoyed it UvA Political Science AISSR UvA Maatschappij & Gedrag

🎤 Ursula Daxecker sparked the conversation on electoral violence at #SELECT conference, shedding light on diverse motives and their consequences. 🗳️❗️

Excited to get to work on the India portion of this project w/ Imke Harbers Ward Berenschot Neeraj - we'll be focusing on support for norms among Indian political elites

Great affective polarisation workshop featuring political scientists and political theorists. Thanks to Eelco Harteveld & Digressionsnimpress. for hosting at AISSR. Inspiring keynotes by Lilliana Mason & Meena Krishnamurthy 🔥