Neeraj Prasad

🚨 📖 “Nationalism and the Transformation of the State” is out with CUP! I’m so happy to conclude 6 years of research with Lars-Erik Cederman, Luc Girardin, Yannick Pengl and many others like that!
It’s open access @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org here: tinyurl.com/nastac
What’s the book all about? A 🧵

New paper in @ajpseditor.bsky.social. Is descriptive representation good for substantive representation? Why do voters stay loyal to corrupt and poorly governing ethnic parties? I argue that we ought to focus less on patronage and more on dignity concerns. Defiant pride can come at a price. 1/🧵

Congratulations Thomas.

Congratulations 🕺 Looking forward to reading it

I am in the same list: Solidarity!

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How Firms, Bureaucrats, and Ministries Benefit from the Revolving Door: Evidence from Japan - https://cup.org/43SvKxE

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BJPolS abstract from a research study on the impact of public parades and communal rituals in post-conflict societies in Northern Ireland, focusing on mixed-methods research and longitudinal studies conducted between 2003 and 2022.

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Contentious Rituals and Intergroup Relations: Parading in Northern Ireland - cup.org/3L55Bp7

- Kit Rickard, Giovanni Hollenweger, @swebera.bsky.social & @kristinmbakke.bsky.social

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We find that misinformation was only partly effective. While some co-partisans increased their support of the policy position advocated by the misinformer, messages failed to persuade non-supporters, and were easily corrected among co-partisans.

Our empirical analysis is based on a pre-registered vignette experiment embedded in a representative post-election survey in India. Our design mimics the opposition's use of campaign misinformation to polarize voters' preferences and beliefs on issues of religion.

Misinformation that primes non-partisan but politically relevant social identities may attract voters who share those identities, moving both supporters and non-supporters toward the sponsor’s stance. If processed along partisan lines, however, it only appeals to existing supporters.

Politicians frequently sponsor misinformation during election campaigns, but its effectiveness in shifting voters' policy preferences and beliefs remains unclear. We argue that the efficacy of campaign misinformation depends on whether it latches onto partisan or non-partisan identities.

Preaching to the converted: Misinformation and voter preferences in election campaigns Politicians frequently sponsor misinformation during election campaigns, but its effectiveness in shifting voters' policy preferences and beliefs rema…

🚨🚨🚨 New Paper Alert 🚨🚨🚨
Preaching to the converted: Misinformation and voter preferences in election campaigns, co-authored with U Daxecker, and published in the @electoralstudies.bsky.social.

Is misinformation an effective campaign tool — or just noise? See 🧵

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Misinformation that primes non-partisan but politically relevant social identities may attract voters who share those identities, moving both supporters and non-supporters toward the sponsor’s stance. If processed along partisan lines, however, it only appeals to existing supporters.

nice coverage of our APSR article in The Print today!

“Children are learning to fight fake news. Study shows classrooms help"

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🚨 out at @apsrjournal.bsky.social 🚨

➡️ We ran a large media literacy experiment to fight misinformation
➡️ 13,500 students, 583 villages in Bihar, India
➡️Created custom misinfo curriculum of 4 months
➡️Partnered w the government to roll it out as an official course in classrooms

hopeful findings👇🏽

Screen shot of the title and abstract of the article I am talking about

Very happy to be able to share the polling-level dataset on Indian Parliamentary Elections 2009, 2014, 2019 that we have been working on for more than a decade. Both the data and the data descriptor are open access: rdcu.be/eujHH

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Even subtle online rumors about out-group can ⬆️ resentment & conflict-related emotions. Results from large pre-registered experiment out in
@cpsjournal.bsky.social
, with Mathilde B. Mjelva,
@sschutte.bsky.social
, Helga M. Binningsbø.
@statsvitenskap.bsky.social @unioslo-svfak.bsky.social

I will assume it is 10 AM now and ask you: Was the sandwich good?

📢 New article📢
Why do assassinations of social activists persist in democratic regimes?
Juan Albarracín, Rodrigo Moura Karolczak & Jonas Wolff link these killings to highly territorialized industrial deforestation in the Amazon, where criminal-political networks violently react to local resistance.

Political violence in democracies: An Introduction - Andrea Ruggeri, Ursula Daxecker, Neeraj Prasad, 2025 It is well established that democracies experience less political violence than autocracies. Paradoxically, however, this widely accepted fact has led scholars ...

To get an overview of the special issue, read the introduction to the special issue here: doi.org/10.1177/0022...

Volume 62 Issue 5, September 2025
Special Issue on Political Violence in Democracies, Journal of Peace Research is officially out.
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📢 New publication! 📢
Does political violence backfire in mature democracies?
In this article, @kkrakows.bsky.social (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social) and @juansemorales.bsky.social (Wilfrid Laurier University) examine how the January 6 US Capitol Attack affected public support for US politicians.

📢 New publication! 📢
Why do ordinary citizens participate in election violence in democracies?
Kathleen Klaus and @meganturnbull.bsky.social argue that such violence is often jointly produced by elites and citizens, enabled by threat-based narratives and social networks that legitimize violence.

Why political violence is on the rise in the United States and where it might lead | USAPP Hostile rhetoric from political elites is combining with the growth of political influencers and often violent associates and feeding a self-reinforcing cycle of political polarization and political…

The killing of right-wing influencer #CharlieKirk is the latest in a spate of acts of #political #violence in the #US.

But what conditions have led to this trend, and what does it mean for #democracy?

Ursula Daxecker, @neerajprsd.bsky.social & @andrearuggeri.bsky.social for @lseusablog.bsky.social

Thanks @lseusablog.bsky.social for guesting a reflection of ours on the recent political violence in the USA (but not only). For those who want to read our open access special issue intro on political violence in democracies @jpeaceresearch.bsky.social : journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Why political violence is on the rise in the United States and where it might lead | USAPP Hostile rhetoric from political elites is combining with the growth of political influencers and often violent associates and feeding a self-reinforcing cycle of political polarization and political v...

Why is political violence on the rise in the United States? Ursula Daxecker and @neerajprsd.bsky.social of the University of Amsterdam and @andrearuggeri.bsky.social of the University of Milan look at the trend and where it might lead

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Article by @marietheresemeye.bsky.social on election denial in the US: Finds that local elite endorsement of Trump’s fraud claims amplified national narratives, boosting protest mobilization in their districts after 2020.

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@noyonikadas.bsky.social integrates research on decentralization and political violence: Finds that in West Bengal, incumbents deploy violence to engineer non-contestation in local elections, converting opposition withdrawals into uncontested victories.

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Juan Masullo, @kkrakows.bsky.social, & @dmorisi.bsky.social examine crime and democracy in Brazil: Find that exposure to crime increases support for unlawful enforcement (police overreach, vigilante justice) but does not erode broader commitments to democracy.

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