There is surprisingly little evidence on how terror attacks impact elections. With only a few exceptions, previous … comprehensive, multi-country examination of the effects of terror attacks on political opinions and election outcomes. The results …

International election observation has become a valuable means of supporting African democratic polity. Notably, EU … can be as least as damaging to the declared aims of election observation as the former. Two outstanding examples, the … observation of transitional elections in Nigeria and Madagascar, will serve to illustrate this hypothesis and its consequences for …

major national elections. Using a unique dataset that draws on data covering some 250 banksin 19 Eurozone countries from … European banks increase loan rates for corporate and housing loans ahead of elections. This supports the view that loan pricing … changes of European banks are driven by the electoral uncertainty inherent to the democratic election process. We find that …