
Author: djw

Voters in the Southern African State of Eswatini (known until 2018 as Swaziland; the name change was ostensibly to prevent confusion with Switzerland, which I refuse to believe was a.
Normally, I strive to post about any national election, only covering local and regional elections if there is some particular noteworthy significance. However, a reader emailed to request a thread.

I haven't been doing follow-ups to my election posts, but the news this morning out of Gabon compels a brief one. Ali Bongo was announced the winner (by a margin,.
Albert-Bernard Bongo was born in the colony of French Equatorial Africa, in the city then known Lewai (now known as Bongoville, and no, that's not a coincidence) in 1935, the.
With the semester starting tomorrow, combined with an ill-timed bout of COVID-19 (symptoms mild and brief, thankfully, but it wrecked havoc on travel plans), I have not had time to.
It's election day in Ohio, despite Ohio outlawing August elections less than a year ago. I wrote about this particular election a few weeks ago; the day of truth has.
It was not so long ago that some comparative politics scholars were talking about the "Iberian exception." While virtually every country in Europe had seen a the rise of some.
In March of 1970, Cambodia experienced a coup, in which Lon Nol deposed Prince Norodam Sihanouk and establishing the Khmer Republic, a United States-backed military dictatorship. In response to this.