By Ieva Hofmane (European University Institute) On October 1, 2022, the Latvian general election was held. The results awarded seats in the Saeima, the parliament of the Republic of Latvia, to seven parties, including four newcomers. Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš’ New Unity party has captured almost 19% support, while the opposition Greens and Farmers Union [...]
By Bruno Marino (LUISS, Rome) The result of the 2022 Italian general election was substantially in line with pre-electoral expectations and polls: a clear victory for the right-wing coalition [1] led by Fratelli d’Italia (FdI, Brothers of Italy), led by Giorgia Meloni and also made by Matteo Salvini’s Lega (League) and Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia [...]
Co-authored paper presented at the 118th APSA Annual Conference in Montreal.
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 [...]
