Election

Ireland is a genuinely mixed case for this series. Its parliamentary elections have no fixed date and no strong month…

Uganda and Tanzania are useful to cover together, since both are large East African democracies with elections that, on paper,…

Australia sits somewhere between the UK and Canada in this series. Like the UK, its House of Representatives has no…

Canada is one of the best “law versus practice” stories in this whole series. It has a clearly written fixed-date…

South Africa offers a useful middle-ground case for this series. It has no single fixed calendar date the way Ghana…

Kenya is a genuinely timely choice to cover, because as this article is being written, Kenya’s own courts are in…

The Philippines runs one of the cleanest, most consistently followed election calendars covered anywhere in this series for its main…

Pakistan is a useful contrast to every country covered so far in this series, because it has real, clearly written…

The UK is the odd one out in this series so far. Every other country covered here has some kind…

India runs one of the most layered election systems in the world: a national vote for the Lok Sabha, staggered…