By Ömer Faruk Gençkaya (Marmara University) The Justice and Development Party (AKP) won a landslide victory at the “renewed” elections of November 1st. This is a big surprise for the AKP itself. All scenarios predicted a coalition or minority government options. Therefore, the AKP announced that another election was also possible. However, shortly before the [...]
Presentation at the Institute for Political and Social Sciences (IPCS, Barcelona) of "The Essential Work of Peter Mair" with the participation of Emeritus Prof. Isidre Molas (Autonomous University of Barcelona), Dr. Ignacio Lago (Pompeu Fabra University) and Dr. Astrid Barrio (University of Valencia). View LINK
Presentation at the Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies (CEPC, Madrid) of "The Essential Work of Peter Mair" with the participation of Prof. Jose Ramon Montero (Autonomous University of Madrid), Dr. Juan Rodriguez Teruel (University of Valencia) and Dr. Pablo Simón (University Carlos III) View LINK
A brief analysis (with Simona Guerra) of the last parliamentary elections in Poland View LINK
Interview on the 2015 Armenian Constitutional reforms, published by CIVILNET. View link Armenian version
By Daniel Bochsler (University of Zurich), Marlène Gerber (University of Bern) and David Zumbach (University of Bern) Switzerland has just experienced one of the most stable elections, even by Swiss standards, with net volatility of just over 4% of the votes. The authors explain, why it is still perceived as a landslide victory of the [...]
By Ömer Faruk Gençkaya (Marmara University) After an uninterrupted 12-year period of running a majority government, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) faced a real challenge in the latest parliamentary elections on June 7, 2015. The AKP, which lost its primary objectives of democracy, pluralism and accountability, had fallen short to form a majority government [...]
Participation on "For Whom the Bells Toll? Democratization and Political Parties in South East Europe", a Workshop of Party Experts in Southern and Eastern Europe, sponsored by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (Sarajevo).
Post (co-written with Luís de Sousa) on the 2015 Portuguese parliamentary elections, published on the EUROPP at the London School of Economics. View link 1 View link 2
By Luís de Sousa (University of Aveiro) and Fernando Casal Bértoa (University of Nottingham) On the morning of the 5th of October 2015, the 115th birthday of the implantation of the Portuguese Republic (5th October 1910), one of the bank holidays that have been eliminated by the centre-right government during the troikian period, the Portuguese [...]
