What's Next for the Green Party of Canada?
The six leadership candidates for the Green Party of Canada. Image from CBC. With the start of the Green Party of Canada's leadership...
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gabrielblanc
- Jun 22
- 5 min
No More Majorities
Posters for La France Insoumise in France's 2022 Legislative Elections. Image from France24. On June 19th, French citizens went to the...
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gabrielblanc
- Jun 7
- 5 min
In Defense of Mandatory Voting
Photo from the Globe and Mail In the wake of an election with 43 per cent voter turnout — the lowest in Ontario's history — pundits and...
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gabrielblanc
- Nov 22, 2021
- 5 min
What is a Green Party?
This article was first published in the Brown Political Review. Image from Wikimedia Commons (Midnightblueowl). “The principal defect of...
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gabrielblanc
- Oct 31, 2021
- 4 min
Canada: A Democracy in Decline?
This article was first published in the Brown Political Review. Image from Dennis Jarvis on Flickr. Although Canada’s recent federal...
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gabrielblanc
- Apr 16, 2021
- 5 min
The 2022 French Presidential Election is a Test of the First-past-the-post System
This article first appeared in the Brown Political Review. Graphic by Amy Lim. The two leading candidates for France’s 2022 presidential...
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gabrielblanc
- Feb 4, 2021
- 3 min
Maurice Duverger v. Lebron James
Every year, it seems like the NBA fields a new and seemingly unbeatable combination of talents. Chronologically, they include: The Boston...
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gabrielblanc
- Nov 30, 2020
- 7 min
Electoral Reform for Canada
Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.com. I've written a fair bit about electoral reform on this blog, so here is a list of some ideas for...
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gabrielblanc
- Nov 27, 2020
- 6 min
Duverger says it can happen here too
If Americans have learned one thing over the past four years, it's that they shouldn't feel too comfortable with the phrase "it could...
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gabrielblanc
- Nov 19, 2020
- 6 min
Electoral reform is for losers
Like my post about "Canada's 'blue wave'" this is an expansion on something I touch on in an article I recently wrote for the Brown...
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gabrielblanc
- Nov 16, 2020
- 4 min
Canada's "blue wave"
I mention the federal/provincial power split in an article I wrote for the Brown Political Review about Canada's "fundamental centrism."...
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