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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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, ...

That said, representative democracy does exist in America if one looks to the local level. It is in this place where citizens are most likely to have immediate access to their elected representatives.

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 ...

A mass meeting of the "Regular Representative Democracy," as it was named in the call, as opposed to the "close corporations" of Tammany and Mozart, was held at Cooper Institute last evening.

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; ...