India’s Congress Party has given Modi an historic opportunity
By Rahul Mukherji, National University of Singapore. The ruling Congress Party received the thrashing of a lifetime when Indians went to the polls earlier this month. The Hindu nationalist Bharatiya...
View ArticleIndia’s election: A debacle for Congress, and challenges for Modi
By Krishna K. Tummala. India, the most populous working democracy in the world, completed elections to its 16th Parliament. Spreading over a six week period in nine phases, the election costs...
View ArticleThe Eighth European Parliament: More politicization
By Alexander Katsaitis, University College London. Despite “shocks” & “earthquakes” that took place at the national level, in particular in France and the UK where the far-right humiliated both...
View ArticleThe European elections: More of the same
By Thomas Risse, Freie Universität Berlin. Next to India, the elections for the European Parliament (EP) have been the second-largest democratic voting on the globe, with about 400 million citizens in...
View ArticleThe challenge for Indonesia’s new president
Joko Widodo In a commentary for the next issue of Governance, Marcus Mietzner of Australian National University looks at the results of last month’s election in Indonesia, the world’s fourth most...
View ArticleThe Canadian federal election: What it means for policy and politics
By Sandford Borins. The results of the Oct. 19 Canadian election were both definitive and surprising: a majority government for the Liberal Party of Canada, which in the previous election had run...
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