Workshop in Estonia
Workshop on "Democracy in Reverse: Patterns of Autocratization in Eastern Europe and Eurasia" at the University of Tartu (Estonia). View LINK
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10, 2018
10
10, 2018
OSCE/ODIHR Opinion (Lithuania)
OSCE/ODIHR Opinion on Certain Provisions of the Law on Funding of and Control of Funding of Political Parties in Lithuania. Download PDF (ENGLISH)
9
10, 2018
Latvia’s Same Old Story: the rise of new parties and a never-ending inchoate party system
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 [...]
10
09, 2018
Swedish elections: All claim success but there is no obvious winner
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 [...]
10
09, 2018
ECPR Summer School (UK)
Co-director at the 28th European Consortium for Political Research PhD Summer School on “Political Parties and Party Systems” in Nottingham. View LINK
13
08, 2018
Seminar in Mexico
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". View LINK
9
08, 2018
AMECIP (Puebla)
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). View LINK
27
07, 2018
Workshop in Australia
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).
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07, 2018
IPSA World Congress (Australia)
Presentation at the 25th World Congress of Political Science in Brisbane.
18
07, 2018
The Czech Republic finally has a new government: it has a prosecuted populist Prime Minister and is supported by the Communists
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 [...]