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 [...]
By Ilke Toygur (Autonomous University of Madrid) Turkey held parliamentary elections on 7 June 2015. More than 47 million voters were called to the ballot box to elect 550 members of Parliament.[1] The results brought the country the possibility of a change after 13 years of single-party rule, with growing fears of autocracy and a [...]
Session on “Good Governance and Transparency” (Manchester) Rapporteur: Dr. Fernando Casal Bértoa, Nottingham Research Fellow (University of Nottingham) View LINK
Presentation at Centre for the Study of Politics (CEVIPOL) of the Free University of Brussels (ULB) on "How to measure electoral volatility: a new approach" View LINK
Presentation at the 2015 FutureLab Europe Annual Forum organised by the European Policy Centre (EPC) in Brussels. View LINK 1 View LINK 2
Lecture (with Prof. Zsolt Enyedi) at the 25th European Consortium for Political Research PhD Summer School on “Political Parties and Party Systems” in Lüneburg. View LINK
By Natalia Timuş (Maastricht University) The failure of yet another government in the Republic of Moldova, after only five months since its creation, has proven that a minority government is an unrealistic scenario (as predicted before by the author)[1] for an emerging post-Soviet democracy, even for one of the promising pro-democratic reformers since early 1990s, [...]
Presentation at the 111th APSA Annual Conference in San Francisco
(with Zsolt Enyedi), presented at the APSA Annual Conference in San Francisco Download PDF
Presentation at the 9th World Congress of the International Council for Central and Eastern European Studies in Tokyo. View LINK
