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Psephology
Tasmanian upper house elections
On Saturday week, one fifth of Tasmanian voters go to the polls to perform some reupholstering on the state’s 15-members Legislative Council.
BC-STV vs MMP: a psephological case study
The old British dominions of Australia, New Zealand and Canada make for an interesting psephological compare/contrast exercise, writes Malcolm Mackerras.
Political snippets: Afghan anti-women law update
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has described a new law signed by Afghanistan’s President Karzai earlier this month “extraordinary, reprehensible and reminiscent of the decrees made by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in the 1990s.”
