This, of course, is at the heart of representative democracy: that we elect people to make decisions on our behalf. If most Americans disagree that this is working well, that’s a threat to ...

Guest columnist Walter Suza notes that "we are a nation, like any other nation, where to be human is also to be a ...

EDITORIAL: Representative democracy has been on the decline globally, according to the Democracy Index published ...

51-63 (13 pages) Deliberative democracy is at risk of becoming collateral damage of the current crisis of representative democracy. If deliberative democracy is necessarily representative and if ...

Coffman, Katherine Baldiga. "Representative Democracy and the Implementation of Majority-Preferred Alternatives." Social Choice and Welfare 46, no. 3 (March 2016): 477–494.

Which is a little troubling, given how critical effective citizenship remains to our representative democracy. Each of us has a responsibility to do what we can to help the country grapple with it ...

In addition to inviting corruption, money in politics subverts our representative democracy by forcing elected officials to serve two masters: their constituents and their donors. The interests of ...

PRESENTER 2: Well, hang on. Democracy is a system of government where the power lies with the people through representation. We have a Representative Democracy in Wales and the UK so the people ...

Why did I attend the protest in Cloquet on Presidents Day? One might think that I was protesting the November election, but this is not the case. We live in a representative democracy, meaning that we ...

Engage in democracy—learn how to contact legislators, support causes, join protests, and boycott corporations to influence ...