About the good or bad of democracy, Hamid is clear about his mixed, and constantly evolving feelings. The bet here is that in ...

Direct democracy in America is under attack. That development has been underappreciated as we focus on the vibe shift represented by Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election.

Professor John G. Matsusaka of the University of Southern California, who authored the book Let the People Rule: How Direct Democracy Can Meet the Populist Challenge, told me that “both parties ...

Both books name and discuss an array of challenges wrought by our emergent era of digital democracy: the illusion of direct access to candidates and elected officials, the spread of fake news and ...

Direct democracy was common in the pre-modern world, ... In the book, we show how democracy was championed by Europeans where they constituted a majority or a sizable minority, ...

In his book, “Pirate ... gendered economics and direct democracy behind a legendary 18th-century pirate province. The bleeding edge of the Enlightenment’s democratic revolution, ...

Direct democracy processes play an important role in state policy making related to the myriad drivers of population health and health disparities. Stakeholders who are focused on public policy ...

In his 2004 book For the Many or the Few, the University of Southern California economist John Matsusaka found that ballot initiatives—those direct-democracy routes around the legislature—tend ...

Direct democracy – or legislating through the ballot ... ruled in favor of the right to marry for same-sex couples in 2015, but the Prop. 8 language remains on California’s books.

In August, when Trump was asked whether he would direct the F.D.A. to “revoke access to mifepristone”—one of the two drugs used in medication abortion—he deferred, once again, to direct ...

You write in your book about American democracy reaching a breaking point, and this being an unprecedented moment. But critics say there was, for example, more political violence in the late 1960s.

A new book, “Tyranny of the Minority,” by Steve Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, argues that America’s Founding Fathers created a now-outdated system that allows a partisan minority in the US to ...