Discover how representative democracy empowers citizens through elected officials, historical revolutions, and robust ...

Here we take what I guess historians would regard as a standard definition: things that happened after the French Revolution. That's the modern era, and that's also the era in which representative ...

Don't just take it from me; take it from the Framers and other early American statesmen: "Democracy" has long included representative democracy as well as direct democracy, and "Republic" was used to ...

Respondents in 24 countries were asked about different forms of governance, including representative democracy, direct democracy, autocracy, technocracy and military rule. Elements of representative ...

Exit polling suggests that about a third of those who cast a vote in the 2024 presidential election viewed American democracy ...