Roundtable in Spain
Participation in a Roundtable on "Europe and Spain in the Time of Populism" at the Autonomous University in Madrid
Participation in a Roundtable on "Europe and Spain in the Time of Populism" at the Autonomous University in Madrid
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Talking about electoral system reform in Galicia's leading newspaper. View LINK
A reflection on the electoral system reform in Spain in one of Galicia's leading newspapers. View LINK
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 [...]
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
Interview on "Catalan 2017 elections" for Radio Sputnik. LISTEN TO INTERVIEW
A reflection on the Catalonian 2017 elections in one of Galicia's leading newspapers. View LINK