As Northeast and North Central Nebraskans prepare to celebrate Independence Day, we take note of the 2024 Best Countries ...

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, ...

A saying popular in anarchist circles holds that “Elections are the means by which we choose the sauce with which we will be ...

Elected executives – the president, governors, and mayors – no longer have effective authority over the operations of government. Nor do their appointees. Nor do public supervisors, such as school ...

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, ...

This stability, while perhaps offering relief when compared to our chaotic national politics, helps mask a deeply problematic institutional reality: Our state’s representative democracy isn’t ...

New data from Marist Poll shows that most Americans, nearly three-quarters, still believe that democracy faces a serious threat. Among Democrats, nearly 9 in 10 do. Among Republicans, the figure ...

Historians say Biden’s withdrawal shows American democracy is working ‘This is not chaos,’ but the move comes as Americans seem to be losing confidence in their representative democracy ...

These are, indeed, worth our attention – but so are longer-running developments that threaten the health of our representative democracy. I want to lay them out in one place, ...

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 ...

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; ...