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31 10, 2026

Students’ movement astonishing victory in Serbia: People have the power and the will to use it too

2026-10-31T10:52:32+00:00October 31st, 2026|

By Tara Tepavac (Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade) On the night of 25 October, Serbia witnessed a historic political turning point. A student-led movement that had not existed as an electoral actor two years earlier achieved a landslide victory in snap parliamentary elections, wiping away both the ruling parties and most [...]

5 10, 2026

Latvia 2026: Kulbergs’ Landslide Amid Record-Low Turnout

2026-10-05T15:50:12+01:00October 5th, 2026|

By Ieva Hofmane (University of Latvia) Latvia’s 2026 parliamentary election produced an unusually clear winner in a political system accustomed to fragmented outcomes. Prime Minister Andris Kulbergs’ United List (AS) won 35.29% of the vote and 41 of the Saeima’s 100 seats, the largest parliamentary delegation ever secured by a single political force in Latvia. [...]

26 09, 2026

Impact work (Mongolia)

2026-09-29T18:25:22+01:00September 26th, 2026|

Workshops with the Mongolian People's Party (MPP), the Democratic Party (DP) and the HUN Party on ethical behaviour of political parties (Ulaanbaatar)

18 09, 2026

The Swedish Parliamentary Election of 2026

2026-09-18T14:22:30+01:00September 18th, 2026|

By Jonathan Polk (Lund University) There are eight parliamentary parties in Sweden and in the 2026 electoral campaign they cluster into two blocs of varying cohesiveness. On the right, there are the three parties of government, the Moderates (M), Christian Democrats (KD), and Liberals (L), with support from the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats (SD). The red-green [...]

10 09, 2026

Symposium in Mexico

2026-09-11T09:14:24+01:00September 10th, 2026|

Online symposium on "Party System Institutionalization, Presidentialism and Democracy" in homage to Prof. Scott Mainwaring (Notre Dame University, USA). Watch SYMPOSIUM