There are two models of democracy. One is a direct democracy; the other is a representative democracy. In the former, citizens elect people as “delegates” to the legislature to formulate laws and ...

Representative democracy is based on a simple premise. It’s that ordinary citizens can make satisfactory judgments on complex public policy and political issues – or at least grasp ...

Representative democracy is based on a simple premise. It’s that ordinary citizens can make satisfactory judgments on complex public policy and political issues – or at least grasp ...

Voters believe that Elon Musk represents a threat to UK democracy, an exclusive poll for Left Foot Forward has found. The ...

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The early days of a new presidential administration attract a lot of attention from the media and ordinary Americans.

This rhetorical and ideological vagueness obscures a pivotal point: there is no such thing as a singular form of democracy, ...

It is hard enough to promote or save democracy when the public is relatively united in its desire to do so. The experience of the “color revolutions” in former Soviet Republics offers powerful ...

But the system that Socrates is rejecting, Athenian democracy of the 5th and 4th century BC, differs significantly from contemporary representative democracy. In Athenian democracy, only male ...

Former military Head of State, Abdulsalami Abubakar, says Nigeria’s democracy has survived threats from forces seeking to ...

Democratic backsliding across the world has become a norm, with fewer than one in three people reporting having trust in government officials.