Indeed, one ought to see representative democracy as a front for capitalism. The issue confronting us is overwhelmingly one of narrative inadequacy. People are outraged by contingencies, ...

Elected executives – the president, governors, and mayors – no longer have effective authority over the operations of ...

Snowbirds love to paint a false narrative and blame the mayor. Let’s not look at the past commission or anyone who was actually involved other than the people who inherited ...

In a Westminster democracy or representative democracy like the one we have in Papua New Guinea, the media plays a crucial ...

In the introduction to their 2011 book, The Future of Representative Democracy, Sonia Alonso, John Keane, and Wolfgang Merkel note that Thomas Jefferson was a proponent of representative democracy, ...

This stability, while perhaps offering relief when compared to our chaotic national politics, helps mask a deeply problematic institutional reality: Our state’s representative democracy isn’t ...

One day into Trump’s first term, I saw thousands of children learning what democracy looks like at the Women’s March.

New data from Marist Poll shows that most Americans, nearly three-quarters, still believe that democracy faces a serious ...

These are, indeed, worth our attention – but so are longer-running developments that threaten the health of our representative democracy. I want to lay them out in one place, ...

Historians say Biden’s withdrawal shows American democracy is working ‘This is not chaos,’ but the move comes as Americans seem to be losing confidence in their representative democracy ...

The reason why we call this view anti-representative democracy, rather than direct democracy, is that we wish to emphasize the antagonistic component of this view, that is, the claim that ...

California’s representative democracy isn’t very representative of democracy by CalMatters November 5, 2024 5:30 am November 5, 2024 5:41 am. Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X; ...