Tag: elections
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The Winds of Change: Hungary on the Eve of Rotation of Power
For the first time in over a decade, rotation of power in Budapest is not only conceivable, it may be days away. But the road back to liberal democracy is longer than any single election night. For sixteen years, Hungary’s political landscape has been defined by a single dominant force. Since 2010, Prime Minister Viktor…
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How India’s Electoral Bond Scheme Tilted Democracy
When the Electoral Bond Scheme (EBS) was launched in 2018, it was presented as a reform to make political funding cleaner and more transparent. In reality, it achieved the opposite. It concentrated financial power in the hands of the ruling party while hiding crucial information from the public. Under the scheme, individuals and companies could…
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The Judicial Silence on Partisan Gerrymandering: the Case of Rucho v Common Cause
In 2019, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down one of the most consequential — and controversial — decisions on the structure of American democracy: Rucho v. Common Cause. At its heart lay a simple but profound question: can politicians draw election maps so distorted that they predetermine who wins ? The Court’s answer, effectively, was yes. After the…
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The Fall of Nicolas Sarkozy
When Nicolas Sarkozy first strode into the Élysée Palace in 2007, he carried himself like a man born for the presidency — brash, ambitious, impatient with limits. To his supporters, he was the “hyper-president,” the reformer who would modernize France. On September 25, 2025, the former President of France, was sentenced to five years in…
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