Much of today’s public discourse suggests that democracy is eroding — under threat, unraveling, or being dismantled. These conversations often fall along familiar partisan lines, with each side ...

Modern democracies are broken, but there is a way to fix them, according to Hélène Landemore. “I have good news and bad news,” Landemore said. “Bad news is electoral politics, it seems to me, is ...

Most Americans say democracy in the United States used to be a good example for other countries to follow but has not been in ...

Democracy is in crisis. Many people are losing confidence in political parties and parliaments and their ability to solve pressing social problems in the long term. Recent studies by the University of ...

Few developments have mattered so much, for so many people, as the global rise of democracy. Three hundred years ago, virtually no one lived in a democracy. As recently as the 1940s, at the darkest ...

Lost amid the cacophony over the bitter presidential campaign and the rampant concerns about the poor health of U.S. democracy is a set of initiatives on state ballots that are likely to have far more ...

When government systems collapse under complexity, democracy itself breaks down — fueling the populist frustration reshaping American politics today. When Democracy’s Operating System Crashes ...

Mr. Levitsky and Mr. Ziblatt are professors of government at Harvard and the authors of “Tyranny of the Minority.” See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en ...

Capt Ibrahim Traoré, who seized power in 2023, says democratic rule would not work for his country.

I fell in love with democracy before I fully understood it. In high school civics classes in the 1990s, I learned about a ...