What does the Canadian election result mean for Canada and the world? 🔊
Canadians have spoken with their ballots, and Justin Trudeau has been returned as Prime Minister to lead a minority government. What does Canada’s election result mean for climate change, for the future of the Arctic, for LGTBQ rights, ethics, and Canada’s role in the...
Who is to blame for the crisis of voter decline in local elections? 🔊
New Zealand’s local elections took place over the weekend, with the average turnout nationally falling below fifty percent. Turnout has been slipping every three years, although there was a slight increase nationwide in 2019 of 2.4%, meaning 44.4% of eligible...
Canada votes: Is change on the way? 🔊
Canada’s federal election is taking place on October 21. The campaign has been hotly contested between Canada’s ruling liberal party and the two main opposition parties, the Conservatives and the New Democrats. A scandal involving Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has...
Q+A: To give or not to give? The problem of political party donations
Scrutiny surrounding foreign political donations have flared again after revelations that the New Zealand National party received $150,000 as a gift from Chinese Billionaire Lang Lin. Lin is a prominent figure in the Chinese horse racing industry and made the donation...
Q+A: Why do so few people vote in local elections?
Local government elections in New Zealand are fast approaching, but participation in local democracy has been declining for several years. The problem is particularly bad in Auckland, where turnout was under forty percent during the last elections in 2016. Lachlan...
How does party affiliation affect local government elections? 🔊
Local government elections are coming up fast, and an increasing number of candidates are becoming affiliated with political parties. Research from Auckland University of Technology shows that since Auckland became amalgamated, more candidates are opting to affiliate...
What happened in the European Elections? 70 academics share their reflections
By Niklas Bolin, Kajsa Falasca, Marie Grusell, Lars Nord In the wake of the European Elections in May 2019, seventy leading academics from across the European Union contributed their reflections, thoughts, and analysis to Euroflections – a free downloadable report...
A new India emerging? Explaining Modi’s victory in the world’s largest democracy
By Sekhar Bandyopadhyay Is a new India emerging? Sakhar Bandyopadhyay explains what Narendra Modi’s election victory means for the world’s largest democracy. In the 2019 election to the 17th Lok Sabha lower house of the Indian parliament, the National...
Is democracy surviving in Trump’s America?
By Paul Taillon The results of the US 2018 mid-term elections are in, and there’s cause for optimism, writes Paul Taillon. The Democratic Party has taken control of the House of Representatives and then some. In the weeks after Election Day, the magnitude of the...Subscribe by Email
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