With so much turmoil in Washington and around the country these days, it’s easy to get caught up in the crises of the moment. These are, indeed, worth our attention – but so are ...

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 ...

This, of course, is at the heart of representative democracy: that we elect people to make decisions on our behalf. If most Americans disagree that this is working well, that’s a threat to ...

Coffman, Katherine Baldiga. "Representative Democracy and the Implementation of Majority-Preferred Alternatives." Social Choice and Welfare 46, no. 3 (March 2016): 477–494.

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 ...

Ruling is a skilled trade, Plato argues. And like any other trade, not everyone has the talent or the training to be good at ...

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

But a representative democracy is predicated on two fundamental assumptions. One is that the government that emerges from such a democracy reflects the genuine will and consent of the majority of ...