DANGER team in Münster
Lea Kaftan and Stefan Stojkovic presented updates on their research based on DANGER data at the PEDD Conference in Münster in late February. Stefan Stojkovic showed how polarization between ethnic minority and majority groups in interwar Yugoslavia first increased the turnout of the minority group in elections, but ultimately resulted in the breakdown of the […]
Invite to Switzerland
Lea Kaftan presented the project’s first insights into political polarization among interwar European parties at a retreat organized by Sven-Oliver Proksch (University of Cologne) and Jonathan Slapin (University of Zurich) in Switzerland in early September 2022. Although more thorough analyzes will follow, first insights show that political polarization is better measured as multi-dimensional concept rather […]
DANGER members at APSA
Dr. Lea Kaftan and Stefan Stojkovic presented ongoing work from the DANGER project at different venues of the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in Montreal, Canada. Kaftan presented preliminary results on government formation in European interwar democracies at the main conference. Based on the ABEL data on political parties and cabinets, early […]