International IDEA organized the first of a series of Expert Talks in Stockholm on 14 November 2019, exploring a number of interlinked issues between political finance and corruption. The event provided an opportunity to inspire and influence the global debate on money in politics while engaging with the diplomatic and policy community in Sweden.
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Quality of East-Central Europe’s democracies shows signs of decline 30 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall
BRUSSELS—On 20 November 2019, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (International IDEA) and the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) will host a one-day conference aimed at reflecting on and commemorating 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Democracy is under threat and its promise needs revival.
Democracy is under threat and its promise needs revival.
BRUSSELS—How ill is democracy and is it really dying? What are some of the remedies to the current problems? These are some of the questions that the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance’s (International IDEA) newly released flagship report The Global State of Democracy 2019 Report: Addressing the Ills, Reviving the Promise explores.
Más de la mitad de la población mundial vive ahora en democracia pero su valor es más disputado que nunca.
The increased prevalence of political transitions following internal conflict has seen heightened attention given to both transitional justice and constitution-building as fields of study and intervention.
A series of Learning Sessions on constitutional change and federalism was held in the Philippines in 2018 and 2019.
A series of Learning Sessions on constitutional change and federalism was held in the Philippines in 2018 and 2019.
A series of Learning Sessions on constitutional change and federalism was held in the Philippines in 2018 and 2019.
A series of Learning Sessions on constitutional change and federalism was held in the Philippines in 2018 and 2019.
A series of Learning Sessions on constitutional change and federalism was held in the Philippines in 2018 and 2019.
The passage of the Bangsamoro Organic Law (BOL) represents great progress towards realization of the autonomy promised to the Bangsamoro in the 1987 Philippines Constitution (Article 10). That said, the BOL is merely the starting point for realizing BARMM’s right to self-determination; making this right, as well as the autonomy envisioned, meaningful will in large part depend on the tone and form of the relationships between BARMM and the central government of the Philippines.
El 6, 7 y 8 de noviembre de 2019 se llevó a cabo la Tercera Asamblea Plenaria de la Red Mundial de Justicia Electoral (RMJE), en la cual IDEA Internacional, como institución fundadora, tuvo el honor de participar como lo ha hecho en previas ocasiones.
A federation consists of at least two levels of government, each of which has a degree of autonomy that is protected by a constitution.
Countries with a federal system of government share powers between these levels in different ways, which affects their decision-making processes. The primary focus of this Constitution Brief is the division of legislative power, which typically raises the most difficult questions.
Open primary elections are elections within a political party in which it is not only the formal membership that has the right to vote, but non-members also form part of the ‘selectorate’.
The structure of open primaries varies from party to party. This Primer explains the key decisions and questions that political parties are most likely to face when considering or conducting open primaries.
This report summarizes the contextual background and processes of writing the 1987 Philippine Constitution, its contents and a preliminary mapping of its implementation, covering elections held under the Constitution, major laws enacted as mandated by the Constitution and critical judicial decisions of the Supreme Court interpreting provisions of the Constitution.
Consensus has to be established first within ethnic groups before national unity can be achieved in Ethiopia.
Democracy building in a post-conflict setting is a complex process requiring strong political and state institutions and processes. Yet, one of the adverse impacts of the prolonged intra-state violent conflict in the Muslim Mindanao region in the Philippines, has been weakening of these very institutions.
La justicia electoral no es una materia conocida o sencilla. Hasta hace poco esta rama del derecho se incluía en otras materias que no tenían que ver directamente con el tema específico de la disputa por el poder político y sus consecuencias.