A little more than a month ago I announced a new “Monkey Cage initiative”:https://themonkeycage.org/2009/09/election_reports_and_political.html to provide timely analysis by political scientists of international elections. I wanted to take this opportunity to highlight the fact that we’ve now had reports on recent elections in “Japan”:https://themonkeycage.org/2009/09/implications_of_the_2009_japan_1.html, “Norway”:https://themonkeycage.org/2009/09/2009_norwegian_parliamentary_e_1.html, Germany (both “pre”:https://themonkeycage.org/2009/09/preelection_analysis_2009_germ_1.html and “post”:https://themonkeycage.org/2009/09/2009_german_parliamentary_elec.html election analysis), “Portugal”:https://themonkeycage.org/2009/10/2009_portugese_legislative_ele.html, “Greece”:https://themonkeycage.org/2009/10/2009_greek_parliamentary_elect.html, and “Ireland”:https://themonkeycage.org/2009/10/election_analysis_series_the_l.html. For anyone who didn’t get a chance to see them originally, they are all worth reading. One highlight: apparently the left is not quite dead in Europe (something we might not have realized from just following French, German, and British politics….).
To all those who have contributed to the series, let me again offer my thanks. To everyone else out there with regional or country-level expertise who likes to follow elections, please email me at joshua dot tucker at nyu dot edu if you are interested in writing reports. Graduate students who are on the ground doing field research: this includes you! We’ve got the following elections coming in 2009, and it would be great to get reports on as many of these as possible. To date, we’ve only got reports lined up for Honduras and Chile, so there are lots of opportunities for guest post remaining!
Remaining elections in 2009:
* 20 October: Niger, Parliament
* 25 October: Tunisia, President and Parliament
* 25 October: Uruguay, President and Parliament
* 28 October: Mozambique, President and Parliament
* October: Moldova, President (indirect)
* 7 November: Northern Mariana Islands, Governor and Legislative
* 22 November: Romania, President (1st Round)
* 27–28 November: Namibia, President and Parliament
* 29 November: Comoros, Parliament
* 29 November: Côte d’Ivoire, President
* 29 November: Equatorial Guinea, President
* 29 November: Honduras, President and Parliament
* 29 November: Switzerland, Referendum
* 6 December: Bolivia, President and Parliament
* 6 December: Romania, President (2st Round, if necessary)
* 13 December: Chile, President and Parliament
* 12 December: Abkhazia, President (1st Round)
* 27 December: Uzbekistan, Parliament