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.

Democracy in the modern world is meant to make governing hard. One of the main complaints of the current governing coalition, and one of its core motivations for weakening the judiciary, ...

When the bells of St. Peter's Basilica tolled on Easter Monday, announcing Pope Francis's death at 88, they rang for the world's 1.3 billion Catholics and all of humanity. During the moment of ...

Following our impulse to have the latest for democracy, we have crafted many laws to keep it viable. There is the Local Government Code, the term limits law and the party-list provision.

Propaganda is not simply a tool of manipulation, and in fact a professor of communication suggests it may even be a necessary skill for any citizen to address global challenges.

A commonsense and bold set of reforms can build a strong democracy for the 21st century and a government that is responsive to everyday people. An American Democracy Built for the People An ...

AP News journalist, Calvin Woodward points out in “ Trump has vowed to shake some of democracy’s pillars,” that “ by early measures, it was a clean election, just like 2020,” and ...

This year, more than half the world's population lives in countries that are choosing leaders. And those choices will tell us a lot about the state of democracy around the world.

But if some or all of these tenets of modern democracy are to fall, it will be through the most democratic of means. Voters chose him — and by extension, this — not Democrat Kamala Harris, the ...

How does a modern democracy safeguard its future? The answer lies not in concentrating power but in rigorously maintaining the delicate architecture of checks and balances.

Sweden: a Modern Democracy on Ancient Foundations Reviewed by Robert Gale Woolbert January 1940 Published on January 1, 1940 . Share & Download . Print Subscribe to unlock this feature or Sign in.

But if some or all of these tenets of modern democracy are to fall, it will be through the most democratic of means. Voters chose him — and by extension, this — not Democrat Kamala Harris, the ...