Monthly Archives: February 2015

Conference on the state of democracy in Quebec and Canada

On April 8 and 9, the Making Electoral Democracy Work project will organize a two-day conference on the state of democracy in Quebec and Canada. The goal is to gather professors, politicians, and specialists from various associations of the civil society and from the media to discuss about this issue. It will be held at […]

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Like turkey not voting for Christmas: Why Sweden cancelled the snap election

By Patrik Ohberg (University of Gothenburg) and Annika Fredén (Lund University) What is the story? Sweden has lived an unprecedented political turmoil these last months. In a preceding blog post, we pointed out that the rather unique Swedish political culture of compromise was threatened by the success of the populist anti-immigration Sweden Democratic Party. The […]

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