By Martin Mölder (Central European University) The change in the leadership of the Estonian Centre Party on November 5th 2016 that led to the rapid formation of a new coalition between the Centre Party (CP) as the new party of the Prime Minister, the Pro Patria and Res Publica Union (PPRU) and the Social Democrats [...]
Participation in the Expert Roundtable on Political Parties and New Technologies. View LINK
OSCE/ODIHR Annual Meeting of the Core Group of Experts on Political Parties (Warsaw).
A brief reflection on the 2016 USA presidential elections in one of Galicia's leading newspapers. View LINK
By Ólafur Th. Hardarson (University of Iceland) On October 29th 2016, an early election took place in Iceland. This was a result of the revelation of the Panama Papers last spring, which in April lead to the resignation of Progressive Party Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson – his walking out of a TV interview when [...]
By Olivera Komar (University of Montenegro) On October 16th Montenegrins had an opportunity to vote at the tenth parliamentary elections since pluralism was officially introduced. Montenegrin Parliament consists of one chamber that includes 81 members. According to the preliminary results 387.765 people turned out to vote, which makes for a quite high turnout of 73.3%. [...]
Workshop on "Party Politics in European Micro-States" at the Chamber of Deputies (Luxembourg) with the following participants: Nemanja Batrićević (Central European University, Hungary), Fernando Casal Bértoa (University of Nottingham), Franz Clément (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research), Patrick Dumont (University of Luxembourg), Félicitas Guillot (University of Nice, France), Ólafur Þórður Harðarson (University of Iceland), Direnç Kanol [...]
Presentation (with Patrick Dumont) on "Party Politics in Micro-states" at the University of Luxembourg
Post on the relationship between party (system) institutionalisation and democratic survival. View link
Workshop on “Party Politics and Democracy: A Cross-road between Academics and Practitioners?” at the School of Politics and International Relations (University of Nottingham) with the following participants: Nicole Bolleyer (Exeter University), Fernando Casal Bértoa (University of Nottingham), Susan Dodsworth (Oxford University), Cees van der Eijk (University of Nottingham), Zsolt Enyedi (Central European University), Tim Haughton [...]
