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Zimbabwe’s elections and the Commonwealth: the challenge of how to deal with ‘business as usual’

by kaymusonda | Sep 7, 2023 | Africa, Elections, The Commonwealth

By Professor Sue Onslow Late on Saturday night, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) announced the expected result of the country’s harmonized elections: Emmerson Mnangagwa re-elected as president with 52.9%, his CCC challenger Nelson Chamisa with 44%. ZANU-PF...
Karnataka: A Potentially Historic Election

Karnataka: A Potentially Historic Election

by kaymusonda | May 22, 2023 | Asia, Elections, India, The Commonwealth

By Professor James ManorThe Karnataka election may eventually be seen as a watershed. It has set in motion two potential changes to the fundamentals of that state’s politics. If either or both become lasting realities, the Congress Party stands to benefit. The first,...
Making Sense of the Karnataka State Election

Making Sense of the Karnataka State Election

by kaymusonda | May 22, 2023 | Asia, Elections, India, The Commonwealth

By Professor James ManorAny ruling party in Karnataka can expect to struggle to win re-election. No government has achieved that since 1985. The state’s voters are demanding, sophisticated and impatient. But Basavaraj Bommai’s BJP government faces additional problems....
The Commonwealth media’s role in elections: some lessons from Britain and Canada

The Commonwealth media’s role in elections: some lessons from Britain and Canada

by chloe | Jan 8, 2020 | Canada & the Caribbean, Elections

by William Crawley, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies The principles of freedom of information and freedom of expression are regarded as the core of shared values to which Commonwealth governments aspire. In practice many Commonwealth countries...
“A New Internationalism” v. “We Will Strengthen Britain In The World” in British General Election manifestos, 2019 – with reference to 1945

“A New Internationalism” v. “We Will Strengthen Britain In The World” in British General Election manifestos, 2019 – with reference to 1945

by chloe | Dec 7, 2019 | Elections

by Antoine Capet (University of Rouen) When reading the party manifestos for the forthcoming General Election, I was struck by the evolution in party thinking – at least as expressed to the voters – since the war. In my lecturing, I used to dwell on the difference...
Archive documents reveal the US and UK’s role in the dying days of apartheid

Archive documents reveal the US and UK’s role in the dying days of apartheid

by anna | Jul 29, 2019 | Africa, Elections, South Africa

  By Sue Onslow and Martin Plaut This piece was originally published in The Conversation on 18 July 2019   It is a quarter of a century since the end of apartheid in South Africa. But it’s easy to forget how complex, difficult and violent the birth of full...
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