This is a guest post by Dr. Emily Beaulieu, assistant professor of Political Science at the University of Kentucky.Contentious elections usually make us nervous. To be sure, elections aren’t the nicest of affairs. At best, elections are competitions where the accompanying rhetoric can, and often...
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This does not surprise me in the least. It's been well known in the pol sci lit that the EU Parliament is best considered a "second order" election since the.
Jack Balkin has an interesting post about the possibility of 2008 being a watershed election, and I agree with several of his points. Certainly, there was always an obvious contradiction.