Written By: advantage - Date published: 8:00 am, December 20th, 2017 - 10 comments
New Zealand and Germany are both successful societies, with proportional democracies, strong economies, underpinned by strong public institutions and legal frameworks, and consistently believe that we are going in the right direction. But both countries rely on MMP and coalition governments. What will happen to the support parties?
Written By: advantage - Date published: 8:00 am, September 26th, 2017 - 40 comments
On the other side of the world another western democracy with an MMP system has recently had an election which has thrown up a complex result.
Written By: advantage - Date published: 8:00 am, November 19th, 2016 - 30 comments
Angela Merkel has offered Donald Trump close cooperation on world issues, but with a rather important tag.
The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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