This, of course, is at the heart of representative democracy: that we elect people to make decisions on our behalf. If most Americans disagree that this is working well, that’s a threat to ...
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 ...
President Donald Trump’s firing of as many as 17 federal inspectors general from is another attempt to remove the type of ...
“According to the UN definition, genocide includes acts intended to destroy a group, in whole or in part, and tearing families apart fits the bill. Honestly, neither political party seems to have the ...
All eligible voters choose them. A legitimate alternative to the word “republic” is “representative democracy.” Somehow, Republicans are afraid of that term. The recent letter that ...
Now’s the time to make the House more representative. We’ve got ideas.
Are there limits to our understanding of the representative spirit of Indian democracy? Representative democracy is a system wherein citizens elect representatives to make decisions on their behalf.
Russia’s exiled opposition faces a critical challenge of legitimacy, struggling to connect with the Russian people at home ...
There are two models of democracy. One is a direct democracy; the other is a representative democracy. In the former, citizens ...
Ruling is a skilled trade, Plato argues. And like any other trade, not everyone has the talent or the training to be good at ...