International Conference (Mongolia)
Presentation on "Public Funding of Political Parties: What Is It Good For?" at the International Conference held by the National University of Mongolia (Ulaanbaator). View LINK
Presentation on "Public Funding of Political Parties: What Is It Good For?" at the International Conference held by the National University of Mongolia (Ulaanbaator). View LINK
Co-director at the 3th European Consortium for Political Research/Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Winter School on “Parties and Democracy” in Warsaw. View LINK View PROGRAM
Webinar sponsored by the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) on "Political Crisis and Constitutional Reform in Kyrgyzstan".
Article on the perils of direct presidential elections. View link
By Mihail Chiru (University of Oxford) The elections held this weekend produced the lowest turnout in Romania’s history: 33.3% and a number of outcomes which were not predicted by the opinion polls. This was supposed to be an election which would swiftly confirm the rule of the National Liberal Party (PNL, member of EPP) and [...]
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) Report on "The Perils of Popular Presidential Elections". Download PDF (in Armenian) -- Download PDF (in English) -- Download PDF (in Japanese)
Seminar lecture at the Department of Political Sciences and Public Administration of the University of Valencia on "The Illness of Representative Democracy: Is There a Cure?"
Presentation of "The Volatility of Volatility" article and "Splitting the Difference" paper, together with Dr Kevin Keegan-Krause, at Wayne State University (Detroit, USA).
Keynote speech on "Party System Closure: Party Alliances, Government Alternatives, and Democracy in Europe." at the Early Career Research Workshop "Revisiting Linkages between Citizens and Politicians in Contemporary Europe" in the University of Prague (Czechia).
By Joseph Alexander Smith (Independent researcher and former political candidate) Georgia’s fractious parliamentary elections will be hailed as a milestone by some, but they also reveal a deeply troubled society that is struggling to stay on the narrow path of peaceful democratic transition. Preliminary results are in Preliminary results in Georgia’s parliamentary elections give the [...]