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.
An ominous but hopeful anniversary
Burma commemorates the failed revolution of 1988 in a new spirit of openness.
Housekeeping note
Blogging won't be quite as prolific for the next few weeks.
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.
Berlusconi: really guilty this time?
Finally a definitive conviction is recorded against Silvio Berlusconi. Italy's politicians need to learn to live without him, but it's not clear that they are up to the task.
Electoral “reform” in Israel
Israel plans an electoral change that seems superficially fair but in context has a clearly discriminatory intent.
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 