This series explores the history of democracy and the fundamental features of the modern democracies we know today.

Our modern democracy has always been under attack, and no one ever knew. Democracy has been around since the time of the Ancient Greeks. Since then, the system of democracy has undoubtedly evolved ...

C.I. Papageorgiou, FOUR OR FIVE TYPES OF DEMOCRACY IN ARISTOTLE?, History of Political Thought, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Spring 1990), pp. 1-8 ...

The “save democracy” types who refer to these longstanding federalist institutions as “minority rule” do not view “democracy” and a constitutional republic as interchangeable concepts.

Recent studies on economic growth report that preventing the abuse of state power through democratic institutions is critical to a nation's development. However, there has been little prior ...

Vanessa Boese-Schlosser has been awarded a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for her work on regime ...

Yesterday, the New York Times and the Washington Post ran more or less the same story about the upcoming midterms. The Post asked the Democratic and Republican nominees in nineteen gubernatorial or US ...

Included in this warm up activity are also primary source excerpts that demonstrate these different models. This will help students while watching videos to identify the different types of democracy.

Previous studies have not established a consistent link between regime type and alliance formation, despite the relevance of the decision to ally in a number of arguments about regime type and ...

The caucus attracted three types of people: the democracy-in-action proselytizers who were thrilled to be there; the resigned skeptics who said they thought caucuses were silly but realized they ...