But Fox viewers held about the same views of representative democracy as non-Fox viewers and respondents overall. Nearly 4 in 10 said that authoritarianism would be good, with 6 in 10 saying it ...

The share of the public describing representative democracy as a very good way to govern is down significantly in 11 of the 22 countries where data from 2017 is available (trends are not available in ...

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, ...

Lawrence Lessig says the “engagement business model” is exploiting people’s attention for entrepreneurial gain ...

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, ...

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

State Representative Casey Weinstein, a second-term Democrat from a suburban swing district between Akron and Cleveland, and one of the General Assembly’s two Jewish members, told me that he’s ...

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.

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 ...

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