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The UK’s party system in flux

The UK’s electoral system has been considered for decades a model for political stability. Known as “first past the post”, voters choose a single candidate to represent their constituency in parliament, creating a system in which only two…

La lunga crisi della politica portoghese

Ci sono due modi per leggere i risultati delle elezioni che si sono tenute a metĂ  maggio in Portogallo. Il primo è che la classe politica del Paese ha chiamato tutta la popolazione alle urne “affinchĂ© nulla cambiasse”, riconfermando al…

MAGA, from Middle America to the new right

One of the great ironies regarding the figure of Donald Trump is his positioning on the conventional notion of the political spectrum. While the current president appears to be extreme in many ways, the reality is that in both of his…