Article in “EVN Report”
Article on the perils of direct presidential elections. View link
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12, 2020
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12, 2020
Protest, abstention and unpredictability: Romanian elections at the time of COVID
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 [...]
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12, 2020
FES Report
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) Report on "The Perils of Popular Presidential Elections". Download PDF (in Armenian) -- Download PDF (in English) -- Download PDF (in Japanese)
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11, 2020
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
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).
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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.
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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