These are, indeed, worth our attention – but so are longer-running developments that threaten the health of our representative democracy. I want to lay them out in one place, so that the most ...

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 ...

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 ...