Seminar in Spain
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?"
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11, 2020
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11, 2020
Presentation in US
Presentation of "The Volatility of Volatility" article and "Splitting the Difference" paper, together with Dr Kevin Keegan-Krause, at Wayne State University (Detroit, USA).
19
11, 2020
Workshop in Czechia
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).
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11, 2020
Contested: Georgia Elections Reveal Deeper Struggle with Democracy
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 [...]
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10, 2020
The Victory of the Right: Back to Progress
By Rokas Stabingis (Independent Scholar) The voter turnout seems not to be affected by the COVID-19 In the face of the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Lithuania has elected its new parliament Seimas of 141 MPs. The voter turnout in the I round on 11 of October was 47 %, i.e insignificantly lower than [...]
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10, 2020
Committee Hearing (Strasbourg)
Talking about the regulation of foreign donations to political parties and electoral campaigns and how it could be improved at the Committee of Political Affairs and Democracy of the Council of Europe.
1
09, 2020
Seminar in Bolivia
Online seminar for "Ruta de la Democracia" (civil society organisation) and the Bolivian Political Science Association. View LINK Watch SEMINAR
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08, 2020
Montenegrin 2020 elections: on a new path with uncertain destination
By Nemanja Batrićević (University of Montenegro) On 30th of August 2020, Montenegro held its fifth and the most polarizing election since the Referendum in May of 2006. With pre-election polling data showing the predominant Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) at the ‘historical minimum’ (ranging from 35% to 40%), the opposition, organized around three ideologically congruent [...]
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08, 2020
ECPR/ODIHR Summer School (Poland)
Co-director at the 3rd European Consortium for Political Research/Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Summer School on “Parties and Democracy” in Warsaw. View LINK View PROGRAM
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07, 2020
The 2020 parliamentary elections in North Macedonia: death race or dead rising?
By Liljana Pecova Ilieska (IMPETUS: Center for Internet, Development and Good Governance) In North Macedonia parliamentary elections took place between 13th and 15th July: voting of the Covid-19 patients and those in self-isolation starting on Monday, the sick, weak and convicted people voted on Tuesday, while Wednesday, for all other citizens, 15th of April was [...]