By Seán Hanley (University College London) On 13 December, Czech President Miloš Zeman formally appointed a minority government led by the billionaire-politician Andrej Babiš, whose ANO movement emerged as the clear winner of parliamentary elections on 20-21 October, gaining 78 seats in the 200-member Chamber of Deputies. The October elections saw no fewer than nine [...]
By Eva H. Önnudóttir (University of Iceland) and Ólafur Th. Hardarson (University of Iceland) An early election to Althingi, the Icelandic parliament, took place on October 28th 2017 – only a year after another early election in the fall 2016, and the third early election since 2008. In September 2017, Bright Future, which was first [...]
Workshop on "Democracy in Europe one Year After Trump" in Berlin (Mercator Stiftung). View LINK
Keynote speech on "The Crisis of Political Parties and Democracy" at the 2017 International Model United Nations (NottsMUN) Conference in Nottingham (United Kingdom). View LINK
Presentation at the International Black Sea University (Tbilisi) on the "Peril of Semi-presidentialism and the Future of Georgian Politics".
Presentation of the findings and conclusions of the DRI-GYLA (Democracy Reporting International-Georgian Young Lawyers Association) project on "Political Polarisation in Georgia" in Tbilisi. View LINK
One of the main rapporteurs at the World Forum for Democracy (WFD) organised by the Council of Europe (CoE) in Strasbourg. View link Watch VIDEO
By Ólafur Th. Hardarson (University of Iceland) An Althingi election in Iceland took place on October 28th 2017 – only a year after the 2016 election. In September, Bright Future decided to leave their government coalition with the conservative Independence Party, and the new right-of-centre Reform Party. Bright Future claimed that a serious breach of [...]
By Vlastimil Havlik (Masaryk University) and Tim Haughton (University of Birmingham) Two initial observations stand out with the first glance at results of the last parliamentary election that took place in the Czech Republic last week. First, confirmation of stability instability dating back to the 2010 “earthquake election”. Second, a clear victory of an anti-establishment [...]
By Simon Otjes (University of Groningen) The Dutch elections were on March 15, 2017. 225 days, later a government was formed. That was the longest government formation period in the Netherlands. So why did the talks last so long? What did the talks result in? And will the coalition last? Longest Formation Talks in Dutch [...]
