A new audit of Australia’s democracy finds it generally in good shape, but with pressing issues that need addressing.

We are in a moment when, at first glance, it seems that democracy must be saved from the people, not by them. We have seen ...

Ruling is a skilled trade, Plato argues. And like any other trade, not everyone has the talent or the training to be good at ...

President Donald Trump’s firing of as many as 17 federal inspectors general from is another attempt to remove the type of ...

South Korea’s political culture is frequently trapped in a binary mindset where “different opinions are considered wrong”.

Imagine living in a country dominated by two political parties. This imaginary country is ostensibly a representative ...

From the Greek word Kleptos, meaning thief, kleptocracy literally means rule by thieves. It’s a government where corrupt officials use their positions to steal ...

Democrats Brandon Saffold and Carolyn Rush, candidates for Assembly in Legislative District 1, said Friday they oppose a bill ...

By Austin Sarat It is hard enough to promote or save democracy when the public is relatively united in its desire to do so. The experience of the “color revolutions” in former Soviet Republics offers ...

A Republican congressman from Tennessee wants to amend the U.S. Constitution to allow Donald Trump to serve a third term.

In our form of representative democracy, we directly elect individuals who best embody the collective interests of a given region. Therefore, a district should keep a community intact or group ...