ELWar – Electoral Legacies of War
The project at a glance
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Start date:02 Jan 2017
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Duration in months:60
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Funding:H2020
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Principal Investigator(s):Josip GLAURDIĆ
About
Electoral Legacies of War: Political Competition in Postwar Southeast Europe (ELWar) is a project financed by the €1.5 million European Research Council Starting Grant for the period 2017-2022. ELWar aims to fill the gap in our understanding of electoral legacies of war by analyzing the evolution of political competition over the course of more than two decades in the six postwar states of Southeast Europe: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia. Organized around three thematic areas/levels of analysis – voters, parties, communities – the project aims to make a series of important contributions. Through a combination of public opinion research, archival research, and tools of natural language processing, the project answers to which extent postwar elections are decided by voters’ experiences and perceptions of the ended conflict, as opposed to their considerations of the parties’ peacetime economic platforms and performance in office. It also sheds light on the influence of war on electoral strategies, policy preferences, and recruitment methods of postwar political parties. And it helps expose the mechanisms through which war becomes embedded into postwar political competition on the community level and thus continues to exert its influence even decades after the violence has ended. The project team consists of the principal investigator Prof. Josip Glaurdić, two postdoctoral researchers Dr. Christophe Lesschaeve and Dr. Michal Mochtak, and the project assistant Ms. Daniela Janeva.
Organisation and Partners
- Department of Social Sciences
- Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE)
- Institute of Political Science
Project team
- Josip GLAURDIĆ, PI
- Christophe LESSCHAEVE, Project member
- Michal MOCHTAK, Project member, Radboud University, The Netherlands (external)
- Daniela JANEVA, Project member, Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER) (external)
Keywords
- Postwar
- Elections
- Politics
Image at the top: © cordis.europa.eu, Electoral Legacies of War: Political Competition in Postwar Southeast Europe