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Crowded Out by « Big Man » Politics, Kenyan Women Still Struggle in 2017 Elections
- 21 août 2017
by Gabrielle Bardall, PhD, CIPS Research Associate
For all its progressive constitution, high-tech society, and exceptionally resourced Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC), Kenya is the worst performer in the East African Community (EAC) regarding women in parliament. These failures …
EN SAVOIR PLUSChina’s Republican Flag: A Conundrum for Canada–Taiwan Relations
- 30 juillet 2017
China’s Republican flag — the French-inspired tricolore representing nationalism, democracy, and peoples’ livelihood in Sun Yat-sen’s Three Principles of the People — was the national flag of all of China from 1928 until the founding of the People’s Republic of …
EN SAVOIR PLUSLiberal Interventionism: The Crisis Within
- 9 juillet 2017
By Katja Lindskov Jacobsen
Center for Military Studies, University of Copenhagen
Liberal interventionism today not only responds to crises in countries experiencing violent conflicts, distress, and disaster. It also responds to a crisis within. This crisis is not simply about …
EN SAVOIR PLUSTrump’s Genius
- 9 juillet 2017
For much of the public and the political classes, Donald Trump remains a mystery. The Twitter tirades and legislative fiascos, the constant media feuding, the insults and outrage all seem to reveal a president who is not simply politically inexperienced, …
EN SAVOIR PLUSClarifying the Caretaker Convention
- 13 octobre 2015
by Philippe Lagassé
What is the caretaker convention? When does a period of caretaker government begin? When does it end?
These questions should be pretty simple to answer. Shortly after the federal election began, the Privy Council Office (PCO) released …
EN SAVOIR PLUS
When We Should, and Shouldn’t, Revoke Citizenship
- 30 septembre 2015
The long federal election campaign has been knocked off course at various stages by the unexpected: revelations from the Duffy trial; the accelerating Syrian refugee crisis; the niqab issue in citizenship ceremonies; and now, courtesy of Monday night’s Munk debate …
EN SAVOIR PLUSSpring Into Summer? The Tunisian Elections
- 12 octobre 2014
by Bruce Montador
Tunisia will soon complete the transition begun when President Ben Ali fled in January 2011. Under a new constitution, it will elect a parliament (via regional lists) this month, and then a president.
Although the constitution gives …
EN SAVOIR PLUSDemocratic Emerging Powers and Democracy Promotion
- 16 décembre 2013
by Gerd Schönwälder
CIPS has just received the report on a conference it helped facilitate in October 2013 on the role of democratic emerging powers (DEPs)—such as India, Brazil, South Africa, Indonesia, and Turkey—in supporting democracy beyond their own borders. …
EN SAVOIR PLUSDemocracy Promotion and the Role of the ‘Democratic Emerging Powers’
- 9 octobre 2013
…EN SAVOIR PLUSby Gerd Schönwälder
A preview of the conference on ‘Promoting Democracy: What Role for the Emerging Powers?’ to take place at the University of Ottawa on October 15-16, 2013.
Millions around the world continue to name democracy as their preferred
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