With all the media attention focusing on the upcoming American Presidential Election, it’s easy to forget that it isn’t the...
This week is European Local Democracy Week 2016, and to mark it, we’re running a series of discussion articles on how...
In 2010 Australia delivered its first hung parliament since 1940. A seemingly freak one-off, the election followed a period of unrest in...
Bucharest, Romania’s largest city and capital, has had a rocky four years since the 2012 local elections. The city is...
Interest in the Australian political system has been building over the last couple of weeks over a proposal to make...
Of all the former colonies to which Britain has left behind the Westminster model of democracy perhaps none so obviously...
Switzerland. A land of chocolate, neutrality and a surprisingly well-armed population. Switzerland is also home to a unique democratic system, the...
Greece will return to the polls on September 20th. This is the third nationwide poll this year, after an earlier...
For many years the New Zealand flag has been the subject of much debate. Adopted when New Zealand was still...
In the current debate about Lords reform it can often be tempting to look for easy solutions which broadly keep...
There was a fair deal of shock in Turkey last weekend as the Justice and Development Party (AKP) lost its...
Much excitement in the European press today as Greece’s left-wing, Eurosceptic and anti-austerity Syriza has come two seats short of an absolute...