What is the difference between representative government and the government in ancient Athens? In a representative government ...

Second, Smith’s use of referendums is motivated not by an altruistic commitment to direct democracy. Rather, it is strategic and highly politicized — designed to hold her party’s divergent factions ...

New research shows many ancient societies shared power and limited rulers, revealing that democracy existed far beyond Greece and Rome.

In 1999, the three political parties at the time were formidable in their zones of influence, and they did fairly well, relative to ...

Prof. Dr. Fatmagül Berktay emphasizes the parallels between what is happening in the world and what is happening in Turkey, ...

Social Democrat (PSD) politician Titus Corlățean has submitted his candidacy for the position of Deputy Secretary General of the Council of Europe. The Council of Europe, a body separate from the ...

The European Commission has unveiled the European Democracy Shield (EDS) as a sweeping initiative it claims will protect EU democracies from foreign interference, disinformation, and hybrid threats.

The decision U.S. President Donald Trump made to attack Iran was a high-stakes gamble. The gamble is not really in the military campaign itself, which is unfolding in jaw-droppingly competent fashion.

It’s increasingly difficult for US political commentators to neglect the centrality of socialism to the country’s affairs. We now see a spate of polling results and other commentary testifying to the ...

Protesters hold signs in the Missouri State Capitol rotunda on Jan. 21 in Jefferson City. Dominick Williams dowilliams@kcstar.com The people of Missouri have enjoyed direct democracy for nearly 120 ...

Three major new studies on democracy and freedom all find the U.S. is slipping further away from democracy. Leaders of two of those studies say President Trump's goal is to rule as an autocrat.

“The speed with which American democracy is currently dismantled is unprecedented in modern history,” one of the world’s top democracy researchers says in a new report.