CIVILNET interview
Interview on the 2015 Armenian Constitutional reforms, published by CIVILNET. View link Armenian version
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10, 2015
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10, 2015
Switzerland: A landslide election, which only shifts 4% of the votes
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 [...]
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10, 2015
Majoritarian or pluralist democracy for Turkey?
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 [...]
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10, 2015
FES Workshop (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
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).
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10, 2015
EUROPP blog
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
9
10, 2015
2015 Portuguese Legislative Elections: between Stability and Disaffection
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 [...]
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10, 2015
Turkey on its way to snap elections: a political gamble?
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 [...]
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09, 2015
EU Integration Forum (UK)
Session on “Good Governance and Transparency” (Manchester) Rapporteur: Dr. Fernando Casal Bértoa, Nottingham Research Fellow (University of Nottingham) View LINK
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09, 2015
Seminar in Belgium
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
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09, 2015
FutureLab Europe Annual Forum (Belgium)
Presentation at the 2015 FutureLab Europe Annual Forum organised by the European Policy Centre (EPC) in Brussels. View LINK 1 View LINK 2