Direct democracy processes play an important role in state policy making related to the myriad drivers of population health ...

Democracy fails when it relies on an uninformed electorate and media rife with misinformation. Steps must be taken to address ...

When our ruling classes speak of “believing in democracy,” they are speaking of a romantic version of a form of governance ...

Democracy in America: what is it? Whatever it is, we know that it is under siege. Barely a moment goes by these days without ...

Indifference was the world’s first reaction to Karl Marx’s magnum opus. In 1867, when the first volume of “Capital” was ...

On the International Day of Democracy, the controversial Swiss theatre director talks about the “ritual” of public votes and ...

Direct Democracy, where citizens have the most say in decisions, is often seen as the purest form of democracy. Ancient Athens showed us this, but realistically, it’s tough to make this work in ...

An article that argues that parliamentary elections are inherently undemocratic, fostering cynicism and alienation among ...

Wrath is the opening word of . Wrath is a key driver of the upcoming presidential election. People are angry at political ...

ATHENS ― In the country famous for inventing democracy, there’s a sense it is fraying ... what is actually happening sometimes amounts to direct political meddling and the neutralizing of independent ...

Today's demagogues are the harbingers of a new, 21st-century form of despotism: a corrupted, "phantom democracy" in which periodic elections are held but the rich become super-rich and ...