Election day in Germany provides an opportunity to survey some of the possibilities.
Category: Elections
Mixed fortunes in Bavaria
Angela Merkel's forces score a morale-boosting win in the Bavarian state election, but it's not enough to dispel the underlying risk that the electoral system is posing for her next Sunday.
Chile remembers 1973
Chile marks the fortieth anniversary of the military coup that led to the Pinochet dictatorship. In a presidential election year, the country's past is still very much alive.
If you’re not sick of elections yet …
Germany votes in two weeks time on the fate of Angela Merkel's government. The result will depend in part on a quirk of the country's otherwise very democratic electoral system – a system which, incidentally, would have produced a rather different result last weekend in Australia.
How to think about the Senate
Australia has a Senate largely modelled after that of the United States, but understanding its elections is a very different business.
Election roundup – loose ends edition
This week, updates from Mali, Czechia, Iran and Venezuela.
President Bob back for one more turn in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's election was pretty clearly unfair. But the evidence doesn't really justify the further step of saying that it was rigged.
Election preview: Zimbabwe
Zimbabweans are going to the polls in a vote that could finally end Robert Mugabe's long and tempestuous career.
Another swing to the left
A swing to the centre-left in Turkish Northern Cyprus raises modest hopes for a renewed peace process.
Big opposition gains in Cambodia
Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen has been returned to government, but only narrowly. A much-strengthened opposition will now be well placed to demand institutional change.
The World is Not Enough 