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,...
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....
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...
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...
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...
by anna | Jul 15, 2019 | Asia, Elections, Human Rights, India, Media Freedom
By Dr William Crawley – Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies The national elections in India in 2019 were marked by a keen focus on every aspect of government by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) under Narendra Modi since it came to power...
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