Sri Lanka is a country emerging from the worst economic crisis since the time of the Great Depression (1929-1939). ..

We are in a moment when, at first glance, it seems that democracy must be saved from the people, not by them. We have seen ...

This is a familiar pattern that scholars of authoritarianism have noted worldwide: Public action moves public opinion. But ...

This rhetorical and ideological vagueness obscures a pivotal point: there is no such thing as a singular form of democracy, ...

Some Republican lawmakers are trying to make the petition process more difficult in South Dakota, where a ballot initiative process allows residents to adopt new laws ...

President Donald Trump’s firing of as many as 17 federal inspectors general from is another attempt to remove the type of ...

Ruling is a skilled trade, Plato argues. And like any other trade, not everyone has the talent or the training to be good at ...

This, of course, is at the heart of representative democracy: that we elect people to make decisions on our behalf. If most Americans disagree that this is working well, that’s a threat to ...

A Republican congressman from Tennessee wants to amend the U.S. Constitution to allow Donald Trump to serve a third term.

But a representative democracy is predicated on two fundamental assumptions. One is that the government that emerges from such a democracy reflects the genuine will and consent of the majority of ...