By Antti Kaihovaara (University of Helsinki) As the last votes were counted on Sunday evening, the progressive parties had most reasons to celebrate. After four years in opposition, the support for the Social Democrats, the Left Alliance and the Greens increased by over five percentage points in total. The Social Democrats came up top by [...]
A brief analysis (with Anna M. Bagaini) of the last parliamentary elections in Israel View LINK
By Juli Minoves-Triquell (University of La Verne and CIDOB-Barcelona) Andorra has term limits for Prime Ministers; they cannot run more than twice. With the end of the second term of Antoni Marti of Demòcrates per Andorra (DA, center-right) who had ruled with parliamentary majorities two full terms, elections were foreseen to be competitive. Seven national [...]
Presentation at Masaryk University (Brno) on the "Rise of Anti-political-establishment Parties and the Crisis of Liberal Democracy". View LINK
Visiting lecture at Masaryk University (Brno) on the "Money in Politics".
Presentation at Tbilisi State University (Georgia) on the "Crisis of Political Parties and Representative Democracy", as OSCE/ODIHR expert. View LINK
Presented at the Georgian Institute of Politics (GIP) Annual Conference (Tbilisi). Download PDF
Presenting on the "Causes and Consequences of Polarisation" at the Georgian Institute of Politics (GIP) Annual Conference (Tbilisi). View LINK View SPEAKERS View PROGRAM
Observer at the "Grassroots Engagement, Communication and Social Media" Seminar organised by the African Leadership and Democracy Centre in collaboration with the Westminster Foundation of Democracy and the Conservatives in Marrakech (Morocco).
By Martin Mölder (University of Tartu) The Estonian parliamentary elections that ended on Sunday can be considered both exceptional or rather commonplace, depending on how one looks at the results. The same could be said about possible coalitions that can form in the aftermath. The elections were exceptional first and foremost because of the very [...]
