Campaigns and Elections

Violence breaks out as tensions over Venezuela’s future escalate.

Opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, is attacked at an airport during his refusal to comply with the country’s new travel ban; Guaidó’s uncle detained under suspicion of harboring illegal explosives. By Jack Wyner Feb. 14, 2020 at 1:30 p.m. EST The ongoing struggle over Venezuela’s leadership has once again become a subject of international focus following […]

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Swiss Referendums and Perceptions of Legitimacy

Swiss Referendums and Perceptions of Legitimacy By Jack Presson On February 9, the Swiss public voted to install legal protections against discrimination for gay citizens. By referendum, voters approved a new revision to an existing 1995 anti-discrimination law that will make illegal any acts of public discrimination against Swiss citizens on the basis of sexual

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Parliamentary Elections in Peru

Parliamentary elections were held in Peru on January 26th, 2020 after President Martín Vizcarra dissolved the congress due to what he perceived as a stonewalling of his anti-corruption initiative by the opposition party, Popular Force (BBC). The special election resulted in many various centrist parties gaining seats in parliament as Popular Force went from occupying

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Democracy, Delayed: Afghanistan’s presidential election was last October, so who won?

On September 28th, 2019, Afghanis voted for their next president. The two front-runners in the race, Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah, had previously faced off in the 2014 presidential election. The 2014 election, which ended in widespread accusations of fraud and, eventually, the US-mediated formation of a national unity government based on the equal sharing

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Coronavirus: Revealing Cracks in CPC

Over the past two months, reports of COVID-19, or coronavirus, cases have spiked across the globe.  Most of these cases have been in China, however that has not stopped the World Health Organization (WHO) from declaring a global health emergency due to its rapid advancement into countries around the world.  China’s authoritarian government’s negligence has

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A Party Reemerges: Infamous Irish Political Party Sinn Fein Wins Popular Vote, Challenging the Dominance of Ireland’s Two Major Parties

According to the most recently published results, Ireland’s leftist party Sinn Fein won the popular vote and gained more parliamentary seats than ever before in the national election held this past weekend. These results contrast years of a long-standing political status quo. For about 90 years, two center-right parties Fianna Fail and Fine Gael have

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“Narendra Modi’s BJP Suffers Big Loss in New Delhi Elections”

On February 8th, the Delhi union territory of India held an election for all 70 seats in their Legislative Assembly, a unicameral state level legislature. According to the Electoral Commission of India, after winning 53.6% of the total vote, the Aam Aadmi Party, or the Common Man’s Party won 62 of the 70 available seats

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Taiwan’s 2020 Presidential Election: A Win for Democracy

Taiwan’s tense relationship with China shadows much of Taiwanesse politics and elections. Taiwan has been holding presidential elections since 1996. The presidential election system in Taiwan is first past the post. Presidents hold office for four years and can serve two terms (Wu 2020). There are two primary political parties in Taiwan, one being the

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The Outbreak of the Coronavirus and the Chinese Government’s Slow Response

Julia Gilstrap Dr. Penar Comparative Campaigns and Elections 02.14.20 The Outbreak of the Coronavirus and the Chinese Government’s Slow Response Blog Post #1 First officially reported in Hubei province in the city of Wuhan around the Lunar New Year, on January 20th, 2020, but believed to have first occurred in early December of 2019, the

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