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7 03, 2018

The EU nightmare comes to life: Italian populist forces above 50%

2019-05-20T12:58:07+01:00March 7th, 2018|

By Vincenzo Emanuele (Luiss Guido Carli) and Bruno Marino (Scuola Normale Superiore) A new electoral tsunami has hit Italy in the 2018 general election, after the already-astonishing results of the previous general election. As highly expected by many pundits, the election held on the 4th March has ended up in a hung Parliament, with no [...]

6 03, 2018

Monegasque national elections of 2018, rooted in the past and geared towards modernity

2019-05-20T12:58:07+01:00March 6th, 2018|

By Félicitas Guillot (IE-EI, Nice) Monegasque national elections took place on the 11th of February. The election campaign started quite early, in July 2017, with the announcement of Jean-Louis Grinda as chief candidate for « l’Union Monegasque » (Monegasque Union, center). The second chief candidate was Béatrice Fresko-Rolfo for Horizon Monaco (center-right), declared in September [...]

16 02, 2018

After the crisis back to ‘normality’: The Cyprus Presidential Elections 2018

2019-05-20T12:58:07+01:00February 16th, 2018|

By Vasiliki Triga (Cyprus University of Technology) On 4 February 2018, the 8th President of the Republic of Cyprus, the incumbent President Anastasiades, was elected for a new term after winning the second round run-off with 55.9% of the vote. In the first round (28 January) President Anastasiades received 35.1% of the vote share against [...]

30 01, 2018

Romania – the 30th cabinet and a case of ‘stable instability’

2019-05-20T12:58:07+01:00January 30th, 2018|

By Veronica Anghel (University of Bucharest) The durability of a cabinet is the standard indicator used by researchers of governments to measure stability. Non-specialists intuitively make the same choice. Now counting its 30th cabinet of the last 28 years, Romania reconfirms its traditional pattern of cabinet instability. However, the case also shows the limitations of [...]

15 01, 2018

WEP Prize

2019-05-20T12:58:07+01:00January 15th, 2018|

2017 Gordon Smith and Vincent Wright Memorial Prize awarded by the journal of West European Politics for the article "Political Parties or Party Systems? Assessing the ‘Myth’ of Institutionalization and Democracy" (v. 40, 2017). View LINK