Jean-Paul Gagnon’s proposal to study democracy as a stable object obscures one of the most important aspects of democracy: its normative character. Kyong-Min Son argues that democracy’s ‘spirit’ ...

There will be those who only read the title, rushing to point out that America’s form of government was intended to be a Republic and not a Democracy. Benjamin Franklin responded to socialite ...

Al Gore at the 2000 Democratic Convention. (Franklin McMahon / Corbis / Getty Images) In the early years of the United States, almost no one called the country’s highly unusual experiment in popular ...

This spotlight is, then, a form of protest in its own right: a way of reasserting that protest is legitimate, important for democracy, and everywhere.

Just as USA founded a revolutionary nation two hundred forty years ago, adopting representative democracy – which throughout ...

“Democracy is the worst form of government,” Churchill is said to have said, “except all those other forms that have been tried.” Actually, what he excepted was “all those other forms that have been ...

For the average global citizen, the level of democracy today has regressed to that of 1978. This means that all the democratic gains of the so-called ‘third wave of democratization’—which began with ...

Today, October 5th marks thirty years since the restoration of democracy to Guyana after twenty-eight years of PNC dictatorial rule. During that period, Guyana was reduced to one of the poorest ...

The local political party 'Tomoni Bunkyo (Together for Bunkyo)' advocates for 'Phronetic Democracy' as a new form of ...