By Ryo Nakai (The University of Kitakyushu)
Latvia had a general election on 6 October 2018. The results awarded seats in the Saeima, the parliament of the Republic of Latvia, to seven parties including three newcomers. Some notable aspects of the election include the following: the current government parties were defeated, a party friendly to Russian […]
By Thomas Sedelius (Dalarna University)
The polling stations closed on Sunday, 9 September, at 8pm as Sweden voted on all available parliamentary positions on the same day: the 291 municipal councils (Kommunerna), the 23 provincial chambers (Landstingen) and the 349 seats in the national parliament, the Riksdag. Here is my brief post-election comment focusing on the […]
Co-director at the 28th European Consortium for Political Research PhD Summer School on “Political Parties and Party Systems” in Nottingham.
Seminar lecture at the Institute of Juridical Investigaciones (IIJ) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City on “The Crisis of European Party Systems”.
Keynote speech on “Party Systems in Crisis: Can We Fix It?” at the 6th International Conference of the Mexican Political Science Association (AMECIP) in Puebla (Mexico).
Presentation of the “Who Governs” project at the “Sharing is Caring: Comparative Ministerial Elites Across Time and Space” workshop held at the Australian National University (Canberra).
Presentation at the 25th World Congress of Political Science in Brisbane.
By Vlastimil Havlik (Masaryk University) and Ivan Jarabinský (Institute for Evaluations and Social Analyses)
Initial situation
It was 263 days after the last general election that a new minority coalition government was formed. The populist ANO and the Czech Social Democratic Party (CSSD) came together and the coalition is – for the first time after the fall […]
Co-director at the 1st European Consortium for Political Research/Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Summer School on “Parties and Democracy” in Warsaw.
Presentation at the Taiwan Studies Program’s and Asia Research Institute’s workshop on “Mapping Taiwan Globally” held at the University of Nottingham (UK).
