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Convening a panel of five experts in constitutional law, the courts and government relations, Congresswoman Becca Balint ...
As Northeast and North Central Nebraskans prepare to celebrate Independence Day, we take note of the 2024 Best Countries ...
Elected executives – the president, governors, and mayors – no longer have effective authority over the operations of ...
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, ...
Becca Balint, joined by state leaders, will be at the Winooski High School theater tonight to speak about the future of ...
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, ...
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; ...
Democracy can be exhausting and frustrating, especially representative democracy, which takes the immediate responsibility of ruling out of the hands of ordinary citizens and puts it in the hands ...
Of 23 countries surveyed, median of 58% of adults were dissatisfied with democracy. Pew says many are frustrated with ...
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 ...