Rather, more direct political participation could revitalize and legitimize democracy—provided that innovative participatory formats are intelligently linked to the work of representative ...

For as long as we’ve had democracies, majority rule has left some in the minority worse off. We need to be talking about what ...

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 ...

The guiding principle is that “direct democracy” – which also allows existing laws to be challenged through referendum, as seen with the carbon pipeline debate in 2024 – provides a check on the ...