Liberal International Bureau Meeting (UK)
Participation as an international expert at the Meeting of the Liberal International Bureau in Oxford to discuss modifications to the Liberal International Manifesto. View LINK
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04, 2017
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03, 2017
International Conference (Georgia)
Speaker at an International Conference co-organised by TI (Transparency International), DRI (Democracy Reporting International), Open Society and International IDEA (Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance) on "Constitutional Reform in Georgia" in Tbilisi. Panel I – Powers of the President and Election Procedure Moderator: Jerome Leyraud – IFES Speakers: ● Keynote speaker: Irakli Kobakhidze – Chairman [...]
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03, 2017
The 2017 Bulgarian elections: A Dead-end street?
By Emilia Zankina (American University in Bulgaria) Sunday (March 26th) parliamentary elections in Bulgaria mark the third early elections in the country in four years. Three elections and six governments (three of which care-taker) later, Boyko Borissov and his GERB party (Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria, with the symbolic acronym meaning “coat of arms”) [...]
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03, 2017
Newspaper interview (Chile)
Interview on "How Brexit will affect UK's image", Chile's leading newspaper (El Mercurio) View LINK
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03, 2017
A flattened political landscape in the flat country. The Dutch elections of 2017
By Simon Otjes (Documentation Centre Dutch Political Parties University of Groningen) For the first time in almost two decades a Dutch cabinet lasted its entire term. Despite the fact that Liberal-Labour coalition lacked a majority in the Senate, it was able to implement an impressive policy agenda oriented at welfare state reform without a cabinet [...]
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03, 2017
International Conference (UK)
Presenting on "Institutionalization and Democracy: Aiding Parties or Party Systems?" at the International Conference on "Deliberating Democratisation" organised by the Westminster Foundation for Democracy (WFD) and the University of Birmingham at the British Academy (BA) Headquarters (London) View LINK
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02, 2017
The 2017 elections in Liechtenstein: Slight changes and a stronger parliamentary opposition
By Sebastian Wolf (Medical School Berlin, formerly Liechtenstein-Institut, Bendern) The national election in the Principality of Liechtenstein on February 5th, 2017 was a regular election. About 19.800 citizens had to vote a new Landtag, Liechtenstein’s unicameral part-time parliament with only 25 seats. Although it is a duty to vote according to the microstate’s law, only [...]
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01, 2017
Iceland 2016: Politics as usual, a new centre-right government takes over
By Eva H. Önnudóttir (University of Iceland) The 2016 election in Iceland was an early election, held about six months earlier than was originally planned. The election was brought about by the Panama scandal in April 2016. The Panama Papers revealed, among other things, the ownership of the former Prime Minister, Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson of [...]
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01, 2017
A Not So Fresh Chapter of a Tragi-Dramedy Unfolding: Newly Appointed Romanian Government Faces Old Corruption Scandals
By Luciana Alexandra Ghica (University of Bucharest) Rarely present in international news and hardly ever for its achievements, Romania has gained, however, positive international fame during the last decade for two seemingly unrelated success stories. The slightly more entertaining one is its new wave of cinema which often reflects on the country’s recent communist past [...]
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12, 2016
New Croatian government with old coalition partners: Is it going to last longer this time?
By Dario Nikić Čakar (University of Zagreb) Since the beginning of 2016 Croatian politics has faced serious turmoil and unprecedented events which brought into question the established norms of government stability in Croatia. After less than five months in office, the (government of technocratic Prime Minister Tihomir Orešković) was brought-down in the Parliament by vote [...]