Nils-Christian Bormann, Bruno Della Sala, and Edoardo Viganò presented preliminary research findings from the DANGER project at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the European Political Science Association (EPSA), held in Madrid from June 26 to June 28, 2025.
The DANGER project was featured in three panels at the conference. In the panel “Historical Roots of Electoral Politics”, Bruno Della Sala presented a paper from his PhD dissertation on how the mainstream Liberal Party’s electoral strategy affected the performance of fascist candidates in Italy’s 1921 elections.
In the panel “Conflict & Violence in Historical Europe”, Nils-Christian Bormann, PI of the DANGER project, presented his paper “Political Violence and Anti-System Voting in Interwar Germany” (coauthored with Edoardo Viganò), which examines how political violence shaped voter support for anti-democratic parties in Germany.
Finally, at the pre-EPSA conference on Large Language Models (LLMs), Edoardo Viganò presented a working paper on how LLMs can be used to extract information on political violence from historical newspapers.