Communist coup attempt in Estonia
This day one hundred years ago, on December 1st 1924, a group of communist insurgents backed by the Soviet Union attempted to overthrow the democratic government of Estonia. The uprising began early in the morning when armed communists attacked several central locations, including Riigikogu – the national parliament and residence of the head of state, […]
DANGER Project at APSA 2024 in Philadelphia
Nils-Christian Bormann, Bruno Della Sala, and Edoardo Viganò presented preliminary research findings from the DANGER project at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (APSA), held in Philadelphia from September 5–8, 2024. The DANGER project was featured in four panels at the conference. The first, “Protests and Violence in Democracies & Autocracies”, […]
Conflict Dynamics Workshop
Stefan Stojkovic, a PhD researcher in the DANGER project, attended the Conflict Dynamics workshop in Burghausen, Germany. He presented his manuscript on the role of ethnic geography and prewar political preferences in wartime pogroms against civilians. His research demonstrates that prewar inter-ethnic cooperation can act as a safeguard against political violence. This manuscript is part […]
Introducing the Democratic Electoral Systems data, 1919-1945
This data note introduces an update to the widely-used Democratic Electoral Systems (DES) data that encompasses the period from 1919 to 1945. The data include 243 legislative lower house and presidential elections in 34 interwar democracies. Information on these elections falls into four categories: first and foremost, DES contains variables that capture the institutional rules […]
Local Ethnic Demography and Ethnonationalist Voting: Evidence from Interwar Yugoslavia
The study explores the impact of local ethnic demography on ethnic voting, focusing on an understudied democratic experiment in Southeastern Europe during the 1920s—Yugoslavia. Using original data on 378 counties across four parliamentary elections, the study tests two competing hypotheses regarding inter-ethnic contact between Serbs and Croatians: the threat hypothesis and the contact hypothesis. The […]
The 1924 Italian general elections
One century ago, on April 6th 1924, Italy held its first general elections following Mussolini’s rise to power in November 1922. Despite becoming prime minister in the aftermath of the March on Rome, Mussolini still lacked a majority in the Italian parliament. To increase their chances of enjoying a large parliamentary majority, the Fascists managed […]
PAPER PRESENTATION AT SWEPSA
October 12, 2023 Stefan Stojkovic, a PhD researcher in the DANGER project, attended the annual conference of the Swedish Political Science Association (SWEPSA) in Gothenburg, Sweden. He presented his manuscript on minority and majority ethnic voting in fragmented localities. His research shows that minority and majority nationalist voting is different in ethnically mixed areas, and […]