Plato warned that democracy could collapse into tyranny—his critique of freedom, hierarchy, and demagogues feels eerily ...

I’ve been a convener of global forums on direct democracy since 2008, and have been excluded or dismissed from gatherings looking at participatory or deliberative forms of democracy.

Direct democracy processes play an important role in state policy making related to the myriad drivers of population health and health disparities. Stakeholders who are focused on public policy ...

“Democracy is the vile form of government,” wrote James Madison, the man given most credit for producing our Constitution.

Democracy and the Case for a New American Founding, a new book by Osita Nwanevu, a writer for The New Republic and The ...

It’s unlikely that we would use the systems we have today. The modern representative democracy was the best form of government that mid-18th-century technology could conceive of. The 21st century is a ...

Introduction History teaches us that major social transformations have always occurred in the wake of two types of traumatic social upheavals: war and revolution. Although the sequence between war ...

He said, "Trump was convicted by twelve randomly selected citizens who actually listened to real evidence. This is the ultimate form of democracy. Trump went up against democracy and lost." Idaho ...

So, Indiana House Democrats, inspired by Democratic senators in Wisconsin, have adopted the petulant child from of democracy. One paper called their action an “ exodus.” I call it a gross abdication ...

A constitutional republic is a form of democracy. Last Saturday's "No Kings" protest spurred conversations, counter-protesting and misunderstandings. A video the Gazette posted of peaceful ...

Though Arun Jaitley declared that obstructionism was a “weapon to be used sparingly”, BJP frequently disrupted House ...