Voters in the Southern African State of Eswatini (known until 2018 as Swaziland; the name change was ostensibly to prevent confusion with Switzerland, which I refuse to believe was a.
Normally, I strive to post about any national election, only covering local and regional elections if there is some particular noteworthy significance. However, a reader emailed to request a thread.
Albert-Bernard Bongo was born in the colony of French Equatorial Africa, in the city then known Lewai (now known as Bongoville, and no, that's not a coincidence) in 1935, the.
It was not so long ago that some comparative politics scholars were talking about the "Iberian exception." While virtually every country in Europe had seen a the rise of some.
On Sunday, just a few months prior to the 50th anniversary of their declaration of independence, voters in the small West African state of Guinea-Bissau will elect a new parliament,.
A precursor to this weekend's Greek election was an exercise in militant democracy: earlier this year the Greek parliament voted to ban political parties led by convicted felons. This excluded.
David Pence, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons For all of its awfulness, the Trump administration did make some good policy decisions. It was right, more or less, to push.
I've long stated that liberal preconceptions of politics are so limiting to be extremely ineffective. It's not we shouldn't focus on elections--obviously that's a huge part of politics. But how.
