Modern democracies are broken, but there is a way to fix them, according to Hélène Landemore. “I have good news and bad news,” Landemore said. “Bad news is electoral politics, it seems to me, is ...

I fell in love with democracy before I fully understood it. In high school civics classes in the 1990s, I learned about a ...

When government systems collapse under complexity, democracy itself breaks down — fueling the populist frustration reshaping American politics today. When Democracy’s Operating System Crashes ...

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 ...

Lost amid the cacophony over the bitter presidential campaign and the rampant concerns about the poor health of U.S. democracy is a set of initiatives on state ballots that are likely to have far more ...

People in higher-income countries are generally less likely to say their nation’s political system needs major changes or complete reform. Americans are an exception.

Few developments have mattered so much, for so many people, as the global rise of democracy. Three hundred years ago, virtually no one lived in a democracy. As recently as the 1940s, at the darkest ...

Here are some recent updates from the Democratic primary for New York City mayor: Several rival candidates, for the first time in the history of the nation’s largest city, have “cross-endorsed” each ...

In conditions short of absolute authoritarianism, as long as elections are still happening, ousting a wannabe dictator is possible.

One-party system in Nigeria's democracy is not the wish of Nigerians, we want to see diversification, we want other people to be given their chances. I believe democracy thrives when there is healthy ...