In 2025 and 2026, the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities will support the organisation of three citizens’ assemblies : in the Obolon district of Kyiv, in the Rivne territorial community and in ...

Thirty years ago, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was a widespread belief that democracy would rapidly spread to envelop the whole world. Now we're worried about whether democracy can survive ...

Representation is an essential but troubled element of American democracy. The entire US political system is built on an idea of representation. Indeed, representative government is guaranteed to ...

First, a simple definition of democracy: where the people govern directly by voting on laws and policies, and a system of government where power is held by the people, who can exercise it either ...

I realize that as a part of its messaging, the Republican Party likes to talk about how democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner. I also understand why they are against ...

What Ed Meese and Kelly Shackelford describe in “The Left’s War on the Rule of Law” (op-ed, May 17) illustrates how social justice is meant to operate: outside of our governance structures. Within ...

From an oligarchy to a democracy to a constitutional monarchy, there are many ways government can operate. The government is a representative democracy, meaning citizens vote for their government ...

The honeymoon's over - if there ever was one. One month into office, Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown is at loggerheads with the legislative Republicans over whether to submit a ballot issue to the voters ...

You can be sure that whatever comes next from the people trying to convince you our nation is not a democracy, it won't be ...

In the waning days of the 2020 U.S. presidential campaign, Utah Senator Mike Lee famously tweeted that the United States is “a republic, not a democracy.” Claiming to be a constitutional scholar, Lee ...