Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has lost his sense of democratic accountability. Some YouTube videos have put the PM in a very bad light. Instead of convincing others that these are falsified materials – that is, if he didn’t actually had nothing to hide -, he lost his usual temper and decided to impose censorship…
In November 2012, the Dutch right-wing Liberals (VVD) and the Dutch Labour party (PvdA), managed to form a coalition after only 55 days of negotiations. General elections were held after the Rutte I cabinet collapsed in the March 2012, after Geert Wilder’s Freedom party (PVV) decided to take a hike, because he didn’t agree with…
I have been interested in which countries receive very little news coverage, especially of those in the Middle East. One of those countries is Kuwait. I guess what most people know, if anything, about Kuwait is that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein invaded it during the Second Gulf War in 1990 — followed by the famous US…
Representative democracy (in my interpretation) functions in the way that elections are held, where people vote for the party or politician they best entrust to rule the country they live in (disregarding exceptions where people vote as a counterbalance or are nationals living abroad), taking into consideration the party’s/person’s competences in forming policies that would…
