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Easter election roundup

Election news from around the world. This week: Costa Rica, Egypt, Sierra Leone and New Caledonia.

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Charles Richardson Africa, Elections, Europe, Middle East, Oceania, Referenda 3 Comments 3 April 2018

Election preview: Russia

Russia's presidential election, or "election", doesn't require much analysis, but it still raises some interesting issues.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Europe, Political issues 2 Comments 18 March 2018

Italy: populists and populism

Will Italy's rival populists get together? Or does that idea rest on a misunderstanding?

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Charles Richardson Elections, Europe, Ideas, Italy, Party matters 6 Comments 13 March 201827 January 2022

The fantasy world of Brexit

Attempts to square the Brexit circle remain unsuccessful. But do the Tory Brexiters really care?

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Charles Richardson British Isles, Europe, Party matters, Political issues 2 Comments 9 March 201827 January 2022

Options for Italy, revisited

The Italian results might look complicated, but they really boil down to just two options.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Europe, Italy, Party matters Leave a comment 6 March 201827 January 2022

Italy’s choice

As Italian results come in, Silvio Berlusconi fades to irrelevance and the Five Star Movement faces a momentous choice.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Europe, Italy 2 Comments 5 March 201827 January 2022

The centre strikes back

Germany can finally get a new government after the Social Democrats vote resoundingly in favor of a coalition with the centre-right.

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Charles Richardson Europe, Germany, Party matters, Political issues 3 Comments 5 March 201827 January 2022

Election preview: Italy

The centre-left's predicament in Italy probably looks worse than it is. But in the circumstances that's not much consolation.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Electoral law, Europe, Italy, Party matters, Political issues Leave a comment 4 March 201827 January 2022

Options for Italy

A refractory populist bloc and an octogenarian kingmaker pose big problems for forming government in Italy.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Europe, Italy, Party matters 2 Comments 27 February 201827 January 2022

The trials of social democracy

Centre-left parties in Germany and Italy are putting their futures on the line next week. There's a thriving industry in trying to work out what's gone wrong with social democracy.

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Charles Richardson Elections, Europe, Germany, Ideas, Italy, Party matters, Political issues 4 Comments 20 February 201827 January 2022

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