I am an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam where I am a member of the research group Political Economy and Transnational Governance. My research interests focus on international and intrastate conflict. My current research projects on electoral violence and maritime piracy are funded by a Veni grant from the Dutch Science Foundation (NWO), a Career Integration Grant from the European Commission's Marie Curie Actions, and the Minerva Research Initiative. 

Please visit my Research section for more information on publications and work in progress. I also have a personal website.

Publications

Daxecker, Ursula E. and Brandon C. Prins. (2015) “The New Barbary Wars: Forecasting Maritime Piracy.”  Forthcoming in Foreign Policy Analysis.

Daxecker, Ursula E. (2014) “All Quiet on Election Day? International Election Observation and Incentives for Pre-Election Violence in African Elections.” Electoral Studies 34: 232-243.

Daxecker, Ursula E. and Gerald Schneider. (2014) "Electoral Observers: The Implications of Multiple Monitors for Electoral Integrity."In Pippa Norris, Richard W. Frank, and Ferran Martinez I Coma (eds). Advancing Electoral Integrity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 73-94.

Prins, Brandon C., Ursula E. Daxecker, and Amanda Sanford. (2014) “Terror on the Seas: Assessing the Threat of Modern Day Piracy.” The SAIS Review. http://saisreview.org/2014/02/10/terror-on-the-seas-assessing-the-threat-of-modern-day-piracy/

Daxecker, Ursula E. and Michael L. Hess. (2013) "Repression Hurts? Coercive Counterterrorism Strategies and the Demise of Terrorist Campaigns." British Journal of Political Science 43(3): 559-577. Online Appendix. Data

Daxecker, Ursula E. and Brandon C. Prins. (2013) "Insurgents of the Sea: Institutional and Economic Opportunities for Maritime Piracy."Journal of Conflict Resolution 57(6): 940-965

Daxecker, Ursula E. (2012) “The Cost of Exposing Cheating: International Election Monitoring, Electoral Manipulation, and Violence.” Journal of Peace Research 49(4), 503-516. Online Appendix. Data

Daxecker, Ursula E. (2011) "Rivalry, Instability, and the Probability of International Conflict." Conflict Management and Peace Science 28(5), 529 - 551.Data 

Daxecker, Ursula E. (2011) "Shocks, Commitment, and the Risk of Civil War." International Interactions 37.1: 29-54. Data

Daxecker, Ursula E. (2009) "Opposition Movements, Liberalization, and Civil War: Evidence from Algeria and Chile.” Civil Wars 11.3 (September), 234-254.  

Prins, Brandon C. and Ursula E. Daxecker (2008) "Committed to Peace? Liberal Institutions and the Termination of Rivalry.” British Journal of Political Science 38.1 (January), 17-34. Data

Daxecker, Ursula E. (2007) "Perilous Polities? An Assessment of the Democratization-Conflict Linkage.” European Journal of International Relations13.4 (December), 527-553. Data

Working Papers

Daxecker, Ursula E. "International Election Observation and Incentives for Pre-Election Violence." Revise and resubmit.

Daxecker, Ursula E. and Brandon C. Prins. "Enforcing Order: Government Reach and Maritime Piracy." In Progress. 

Daxecker, Ursula E. “Repression, Information, and Terrorism.” In progress.

Daxecker, Ursula E. "Vienna under Fire: A Micro-Level Analysis of the Austrian Civil War in 1934." In progress.

For access to working papers also see my SSRN page.

Other 

(2012/13) “Do Democracies Win Their Wars?” Edited by Michael E. Brown, Owen R. Coté Jr., Sean M. Lynn-Jones, and Steven E. Miller.Forthcoming in American Review of Politics.

(2009) “Punishing the Prince: A Theory of Interstate Relations, Political Institutions, and Leader Change." By Fiona McGillivray and Alastair Smith.American Review of Politics, 30 (Spring/Summer).

(2008) “Governance, Democratization, and Armed Conflict.” Peacebuild Emerging Issues Project. Peacebuild: The Canadian Peacebuilding Network.http://www.peacebuild.ca/. 

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