By Jonathan Polk (Lund University) The Social Democratic Party received the most votes in the Swedish parliamentary election held on 11 September 2022.[1] The Social Democrats, in government since 2014, even expanded the party’s vote share (30.3%) from the previous election in 2018 by 2 percentage points. Yet the focus of attention in Sweden has [...]
Inaugural lecture of the BA in Political Science at Complutense University of Madrid on "The Populist Challenge: Is There A Future for Party Democracy?".
Co-authored paper presented at the XVI AECPA Bi-annual Conference in Girona (Spain).
2022 Prize to the Best Book in Political Science for the 2019-2021 period awarded by the Spanish Political Science Association (AECPA) for "Party System Closure: Party Alliances, Government Alternatives and Democracy in Europe" (Oxford University Press, 2021). View LINK View NEWS View VIDEO
Presentation on "Public Funding of Political Parties: What Is It Good For?" at the International Conference held by the IDEAS (Malaysia). View LINK Watch PRESENTATION (from 1:26:24)
By Alenka Krašovec (University of Ljubljana) Introduction On 24 April 2022, after a decade of elections being called early, regular elections were again held in Slovenia. The country has had a PR electoral system in place since the democratic transition with quite a low threshold (4% since 2000) and so coalition governments are indeed normal. [...]
By Jan Rovny (Science Po, Paris) The French 2022 legislative elections produced a national assembly without an absolute majority — a first in the history of the French 5th Republic — while a broad left-wing alliance, and the radical right Rassemblement National were the main electoral beneficiaries. Given the rise of these political fringes, and [...]
Venice Commission and OSCE/ODIHR Joint Opinion on the Draft Law in Political Parties in Mongolia. View report
Co-director at the 2nd Asian Summer School on “Political Parties and Democracy” at the OSCE Academy (Bishkek). View LINK 1 View PROGRAM [/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container] View LINK 2
Presenting on the "Coalition Governments in a European Georgia" at the Georgian Institute of Politics (GIP) Annual Conference (Tbilisi). View LINK View Conference NOTES View Conference REPORT (in English) View Conference REPORT (in Georgian)
