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 [...]
Seminar lecture at Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts on "The Crisis of Representative Democracy"
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 [...]
Roundtable at "Probing Democracy" CEU Democracy Institute in Budapest. View LINK View LAUNCH here
Co-authored paper presented at the 117th APSA Annual Conference in Seattle.
Interview on the 2021 German parliamentary elections. View LINK
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.
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%, [...]
Interview on the 5th May regional elections in Madrid. Listen to the INTERVIEW (from minute 25:29)
Roundtable at the 7th International Interdisciplinary Conference of Political Research in Bucharest. View LINK
