Democracy is in crisis. Many people are losing confidence in political parties and parliaments and their ability to solve pressing social problems in the long term. Recent studies by the University of ...

Recent polls show Americans are increasingly dissatisfied with their system of representative democracy, in which they choose candidates to represent their interests once in office. When available, ...

How has California’s direct democracy system been misused to serve narrow special interests? In just the last few years, there was the billionaire venture capitalist with the harebrained idea that ...

Since 2010, Viktor Orbán’s government has managed to channel public sentiment using a range of direct-democratic instruments – including one which even Switzerland’s ample repertoire lacks: the ...

Voters cast their ballots at the Ludwick Community Center in San Luis Obispo on June 5, 2018. California registered voters can find their local polling places for the Tuesday, Nov. 6, election via a ...

IT is time Nigerians began to critically review the country’s electoral system as it concerns the political parties. Ahead of its national convention, the ruling All Progressives Congress reportedly ...

A federal judge on Wednesday issued a preliminary injunction that blocks the enforcement of several direct democracy-related laws against Arkansas groups collecting signatures to qualify proposed ...

What is the difference between representative government and the government in ancient Athens? In a representative government, there is no institutional role for the assembled people. However: ...

What is the difference between representative government and the government in ancient Athens? In a representative government, there is no institutional role for the assembled people. However: ...

It was probably just bad timing. The online research I was doing for a literary project was way outside my comfort and time zones. It concerned a lynching in Georgia in 1915. Not my usual focus, and ...