Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy Quinn Slobodian New York: Metropolitan Books, ...

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.

The League of Women Voters Yolo County will present its Annual Democracy Works Award in October, but there’s still time to ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Local lawmakers have released statements in response to Donald Trump becoming the first former U.S. President convicted on criminal charges.

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 ...

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

The ancient Greek orator Dio Chrysostom (1st-2nd century CE) said in his speech To the People of Alexandria that there were ...