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).
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 [...]
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
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, [...]
Visiting Scholar at Waseda University (Tokyo).
Trainer at the Session on the “Funding of Political Parties” (Kiev) Session trainers: Dr. Magnus Ohman, Senior Advisor (IFES), “Party funding transparency – general principles and new technologies” Dr. Fernando Casal Bertoa, Nottingham Research Fellow (University of Nottingham), “Playing the Devil's Advocate: Party Funding Regulation and Corruption”
Keynote Speaker at the Session on the “Public Funding of Political Parties” (Kiev) Speakers: Mr. Sam Van der Staak, The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA), “Public Funding around the World” Dr. Fernando Casal Bertoa, Nottingham Research Fellow (University of Nottingham), “Playing the Devil's Advocate: Party Funding Regulation and Corruption” Mr. Denys Kovryzhenko, [...]
Participation in a Roundtable on "Regulatory Models, Common Problems and Examples to Learn from" at the UIMP Summer School on "Party and Campaign Funding. Other Types of Toxic Fundings" Chair: Dr. Astrid Barrio (University of Valencia) Speakers: Dr. Enrique García Viñuela, Jens-Oscar Nergârd (Norwegian Ministry of Administration, Reform and Church Affairs) and Dr. Fernando Casal [...]
