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07, 2016
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07, 2016
Montenegrin 2016 Parliamentary elections: Same ol’… same ol’
By Olivera Komar (University of Montenegro) The next Montenegrin Parliamentary elections have been scheduled for October 16th. However, as it looks right now – they will bring no significant surprises. Quarter of century long incumbency of Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS) will most probably continue without any significant challenges. It did not look that way [...]
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07, 2016
May the Force Be With You: Britain’s New Government
By Tim Haughton (University of Birmingham) For once the journalistic clichés were not over the top. The 23 June referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union was a seismic event, an earthquake which brought a dose of destruction to the British political scene: the Prime Minister resigned, allies knifed each other in the Conservative [...]
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07, 2016
IPSA World Congress (Poland)
Presentation at the 24th World Congress of Political Science in Poznań. View LINK
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07, 2016
Fieldwork in Georgia
Research at the library of the Georgian Parliament (Sakartvelos Parlament'i) in Tbilisi.
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07, 2016
TV interview (Armenia)
Interview on the evolution of the "Armenian party system after constitutional reform" for "Civilnet" (Armenian TV station). WATCH INTERVIEW
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07, 2016
Seminar in Armenia
Seminar lecture at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences of the American University in Yerevan on "Party System Development under Armenia’s New Constitution: Comparative Perspectives" View LINK
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07, 2016
A Pre-Programmed Suicide of a Government: The Fall of the Orešković Cabinet and Early Elections in Croatia
By Višeslav Raos (University of Zagreb) After the November elections for the Croatian Parliament produced no clear winner, a newcomer party Bridge of Independent Lists (MOST) became a pivot party. This party, actually a loose, ideologically heterogeneous coalition of independent mayors and local citizen initiatives with a joint mission of toppling down the existing political [...]
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07, 2016
Fieldwork in Armenia
Research at the library of the Armenian Parliament (Azgayin Zhoghov) in Yerevan.
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07, 2016
4th OSCE/ODHIR Political Party Experts Workshop (Ukraine)
Moderator at the Session on the “Public funding to Political Parties and the newly introduced system in Ukraine” (Kiev) Speakers: Nataliia Korchak, Head of the National Agency for Prevention of Corruption Nataliia Vadimova, Head of Division of Control over Use of Funds, Central Election Commission of Ukraine Prof. Daniel Smilov, Associate Professor at the Political [...]