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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Sri Lanka is a country emerging from the worst economic crisis since the time of the Great Depression (1929-1939). ..

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 ...

A plan to change the timeline for special elections, and most likely the election to replace Rep. Elise Stefanik, has been unveiled. Late Friday afternoon, lawmakers filed a bill sponsored by Senate ...

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

As the AI Summit is about to start, HEC Paris professor Yann Algan highlights AI’s ability to bolster or threaten democracy, urging business leaders to act responsibly.