Deliberative democracy is at risk of becoming collateral damage of the current crisis of representative democracy. If deliberative democracy is necessarily representative and if representation betrays ...

Direct democracy was common in the pre-modern world, but that isn’t the subject here: The authors identify two principal roots of what they deem modern representative democracy.

While direct democracy is normatively appealing, representative democracy is the far more common institution because of its practical advantages. The key question, then, is whether representative ...

Representative Democracy Remains a Popular Ideal, but People Around the World Are Critical of How It’s Working Many say their country would be better off if more women, people from poor backgrounds ...

It is an important win for representative democracy – regardless of where one’s political allegiances lie. I had the privilege of serving as counsel of record for a bipartisan group of former federal ...

I realize that as a part of its messaging, the Republican Party likes to talk about how democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner. I also understand why they are against ...

Our textbooks, our media, and our political speeches take it for granted: we live in a representative democracy where the will of the people is paramount — our votes count. But that isn't ...

For starters, it's hard to make American representative democracy work. Our country is large, growing, and astoundingly diverse by every definition of the term.

How Social Justice Subverts Representative Democracy It falls in the gap between legislative and judicial functions and owes its existence to vehemence of opinion. May 25, 2023 10:11 am ET Share ...

A mass meeting of the "Regular Representative Democracy," as it was named in the call, as opposed to the "close corporations" of Tammany and Mozart, was held at Cooper Institute last evening.