Presentation in Portugal
Talk about "The Public Funding of Political Parties" at Conference on "Political Funding: Different Perspectives" at Lusiada University (Lisbon). View LINK View VIDEO
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11, 2021
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10, 2021
SOMEE Conference (Mexico)
Keynote speech on "La Democracia Representativa en el Siglo XXI: Enfermedad y Posible Remedios" at the 23rd Congress of the Mexican Association of Electoral Studies (SOMEE). View LINK View VIDEO
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10, 2021
The 2021 Czech parliamentary elections: the surprising victory of the anti-populist coalition
By Vlastimil Havlík (Masaryk University), and Jakub Wondreys (Independent researcher) The general election that took place in the Czech Republic last weekend deserves attention for several reasons. The major surprise is the electoral defeat of the incumbent technocratic populist party ANO (Action of Dissatisfied Citizens) led by Andrej Babiš and the victory of the right-wing [...]
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10, 2021
Seminar in Ukraine
Seminar lecture at Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts on "The Crisis of Representative Democracy"
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10, 2021
A Historic Bundestag election and SPD’s comeback
By Catrina Schläger, Martin Güttler and Jan Niklas Engels (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung) The Bundestag elections 2021 stand out in a number of respects. For the first time (with the exception of the first Bundestag election in 1949) there was no Chancellor seeking re-election. Furthermore, three parties were fielding a candidate for Chancellor. On top of that, the [...]
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10, 2021
DI/CEU Conference (Hungary)
Roundtable at "Probing Democracy" CEU Democracy Institute in Budapest. View LINK View LAUNCH here
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10, 2021
APSA Conference (USA)
Co-authored paper presented at the 117th APSA Annual Conference in Seattle.
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10, 2021
Newspaper interview (Brazil)
Interview on the 2021 German parliamentary elections. View LINK
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10, 2021
PhD. Thesis Committee (UK)
Member of a PhD. Thesis Committee, together with Dr Stuart Fox (Brunel University London) at Brunel University London (UK). The PhD. Thesis, titled "Preferences for Financing Political Parties in a New Democracy: A Case Study of Political Parties in Indonesia", was successfully defended by Rhevy Putra.
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09, 2021
Government coalition survives in Iceland – for the first time since the bank crash of 2008
By Ólafur Th. Hardarson (University of Iceland) Parliamentary elections took place in Iceland last Saturday, September 25th 2021. The government coalition survived with a slightly increased majority. One of the government parties, the Progressive Party, was the main winner of the election, gaining 6.6%. The party of the prime minister, the Left-Green Movement, lost 4.3%, [...]