1 09, 2021

KAS Summer School (Malaysia)

2021-09-03T15:41:23+01:00September 1st, 2021|

Co-director at the 1st Asian Summer School on “Political Parties and Democracy” in Kuala Lumpur. View LINK View PROGRAM [/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]

1 11, 2020

Contested: Georgia Elections Reveal Deeper Struggle with Democracy

2020-11-01T13:21:33+00:00November 1st, 2020|

By Joseph Alexander Smith (Independent researcher and former political candidate) Georgia’s fractious parliamentary elections will be hailed as a milestone by some, but they also reveal a deeply troubled society that is struggling to stay on the narrow path of peaceful democratic transition. Preliminary results are in Preliminary results in Georgia’s parliamentary elections give the [...]

15 10, 2020

Committee Hearing (Strasbourg)

2020-10-15T16:10:52+01:00October 15th, 2020|

Talking about the regulation of foreign donations to political parties and electoral campaigns and how it could be improved at the Committee of Political Affairs and Democracy of the Council of Europe.

19 01, 2020

ECPR/ODIHR Winter School (Poland)

2020-02-11T09:49:52+00:00January 19th, 2020|

Co-director at the 2nd European Consortium for Political Research/Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Winter School on “Parties and Democracy” in Warsaw. View LINK View PROGRAM View VIDEO [/fusion_builder_column][/fusion_builder_row][/fusion_builder_container]

7 10, 2019

The 2019 Portuguese legislative election: A comfortable victory for the social democrats

2019-10-07T19:36:44+01:00October 7th, 2019|

By Pedro Lourenço (University of Aveiro) The results Last week, The Guardian portrayed Portugal as “Europe’s beacon of social democracy”. According to the newspaper, “while populist parties have erupted at both ends of the political spectrum elsewhere across the continent, Portugal has proved an enduring, if improbable, beacon of social democracy”. The results of yesterday’s [...]

19 08, 2019

ECPR/ODIHR Summer School (Poland)

2019-05-20T12:58:02+01:00August 19th, 2019|

Co-director at the 2nd European Consortium for Political Research/Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Summer School on “Parties and Democracy” in Warsaw. View LINK View PROGRAM

10 04, 2019

Andorran elections: coalition government…or not?

2019-05-20T12:58:03+01:00April 10th, 2019|

By Juli Minoves-Triquell (University of La Verne and CIDOB-Barcelona) Andorra has term limits for Prime Ministers; they cannot run more than twice. With the end of the second term of Antoni Marti of Demòcrates per Andorra (DA, center-right) who had ruled with parliamentary majorities two full terms, elections were foreseen to be competitive. Seven national [...]