elections

Call for Tenders: Authors for the 2019 European Parliament election

14. January 2019

The Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung is a German political foundation that is active in Germany and abroad. Its work is based on the ideas and actions of its namesake, the socialist activist Rosa Luxemburg. We work to promote peace, democracy, social justice and democratic socialism. The project: The Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Brussels Office is seeking authors for a collection of texts on this year's European Parliament election. The aim is to give an overview of the political situation in selected EU Member States, with particular ...
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Image: Jeremy Corbyn Graffiti, England

Labour conference 2018

27. September 2018

Ellie Mae O'Hagan

Elections and parties

A step towards a new political consensusLiverpool, England’s northern city famous for football, the Beatles and its notoriously quick-witted citizens, is always at its loveliest in Autumn. And it is against the backdrop of cinereal September clouds that 13,400 people decamped to the city’s docks for five days to take part in the Labour Party conference, where they would subsist on a cyclical diet of warm white wine, black coffee, composite motions and political debate.This conference hashed out policies on a massive range of issues: the party pledged to prevent the ...
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Image: cristian, italian election / Flickr / CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 [creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/]

Italy: the electoral tsunami and the neoliberal spell

9. April 2018

Beppe Caccia

Elections and parties

A total anomaly or a revealing laboratory? In order to understand the results of the Italian general elections of 4 March 2018, to grasp the current situation and to outline future scenarios, we first have to take into account what happened over the past seven years and the reform of the electoral law that preceded the vote. The electoral law reform and the defeat of the "Establishment Party" The new law, approved in November 2017, is a majoritarian-proportional mixed system, which currently provides a share (about 35 percent) of elected ...
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