I don't know if this is an important enough supreme court decision to trigger commentary from Paul or Scott, but a decision of some interest to those of us who follow housing and land use policy came down today. In Sheetz v County of El...
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Today, Portugal will elect a new Assembly of the Republic, its 230 seat legislature. Just over two years ago, Antonio Costa's Socialist Party faced an early election caused by the.
In the last decade or so, the status quo of near-total deference to local governments on housing and land use policy, leading to exclusionary policies that create economy and middle.
Pakistan's election today lies somewhere in the vast space between a normal, proper democratic election and the absurd exercise that just took place in Azerbaijan. For a variety of reasons, this election will fall short of any reasonable threshold of "free" or "fair", but the...
Azerbaijani president Ilham Aliyev's current term was supposed to extend through 2025, but following the destruction of the Republic of Artsakh and the recapture of the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, he.
The main course is coming up in about five weeks, but before Portugal holds a national election, the Autonomous region of The Azores will hold a snap early election on.
In 2012, at the age of 30, Nayib Bukele, a grandson of Palestinian immigrants, president of a small marketing agency and the owner-manager of his family's Yamaha dealership, won the mayoralty of Nuevo Cuscatlán, a small town in the greater San Salvador area. Three years...
On September 25, 2008, Kiribati president Anote Tong gave a speech at the United Nations, on the subject of the eventual need to relocate the population of his and other.
Earlier this week Rob and I chatted with occasional LGM contributor and Reed College political science professor Chris Koski about the electoral landscape and prospects for 2024. A range of.
Azali Assoumani first came to power when as a Colonel in the Comoros army, he led a successful coup d'etat of the former prime minister and current president, Tadjidine Ben Said Massounde, in April of 1999. This was the 5th successful coup d'etat in the...
Due to my failure to think about time zones properly, this one didn't get written until after the result. The current ruling Democratic People's Party, will remain in power. Their.
Thursday, the voters in Sint Maarten will elect a new Estates, their 15 member parliament. Since the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles in 2010, Sint Maarten as been a semi-autonomous.