Kristen Jordan writes, Democracy should be a little uncomfortable, because that means people are being heard. Missoula ...

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, ...

Representative democracy does not look like inside baseball. It looks like thousands of constituents all across the Commonwealth organizing together, learning about how the State House operates ...

But taking representative democracy for granted was a mistake. Slowly, it’s been dismantled and replaced with an expectation of direct democracy. Our society increasingly replaced the nuance of ...

Over the last few years, the health of American democracy has come under great scrutiny. Polling routinely shows that Americans are concerned that democratic institutions aren’t working as well ...

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; ...

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, ...

W&M Chancellor Robert M. Gates ’65, L.H.D. ’98 spoke Wednesday morning to a crowd of approximately 300 gathered in Kaplan Arena for American Evolution’s Forum on the Future of Representative Democracy ...

While representative democracy was the most popular system, direct democracy, in which citizens themselves vote on major issues, was close behind, with a median of 70% saying it would be a good ...