On January 14, President Trump sat down for a thirty-minute interview with Reuters, the latest in a series of interviews with ...

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: ...

For the 16th consecutive year, Norway was named the most democratic country in the world, with a score of 9.81. New Zealand and Sweden followed. Afghanistan has been the lowest-ranked country since ...

The major public opinion survey institutions in the US (Pew Research, Gallup, and others) and the UK (YouGov UK, Ipsos UK, and others) are telling the same story. The citizens of both countries are ...

Tonga’s 150-year constitutional journey reveals how limited democratic reforms have struggled to balance power between the monarchy, nobles and elected representatives. As the country heads into the ...

I have noted an uptick in various persons reminding me (and you) that the United States is not a democracy. I've heard it from political panels on TV, during interviews with politicians, and most ...

But the Founding Fathers, who favored a republic designed to temper the passions of large assemblies, would not have recognized themselves in the sea of subversives and malcontents at No Kings rallies ...

Town halls allow voters to directly question their representatives and hold them accountable. Many members of Congress avoid town halls due to the risk of facing angry crowds in viral moments. Indiana ...

There has been much talk about democracy lately. When we think about democracy’s origins, we automatically point to our 18th-century founding fathers. Yet more than a century before, Adriaen van der ...

Five young people spearheading efforts around the world to bolster and restore democratic principles share what they have learned — and what needs to change. By Shivani Vora This article is from a ...

NYU’s School of Law debuted its Democracy Project last month, rolling out plans to research current threats to U.S. democracy and convene scholars across political affiliations to discuss bipartisan ...