The early days of a new presidential administration attract a lot of attention from the media and ordinary Americans.

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

With so much turmoil in Washington and around the country these days, it’s easy to get caught up in the crises of the moment. These are, indeed, worth our attention – but so are ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

But the system that Socrates is rejecting, Athenian democracy of the 5th and 4th century BC, differs significantly from contemporary representative democracy. In Athenian democracy, only male ...

One can argue with a straight face that failing to allow voters to elect the president of their choice is an infringement on representative democracy. In one defensible worldview, giving voters the ...

Director Hwang Dong-hyuk explained that the OX voting system was designed to highlight the vulnerabilities of representative democracy, questioning whether it is fair for a narrow margin of votes ...

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