Ruling is a skilled trade, Plato argues. And like any other trade, not everyone has the talent or the training to be good at ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order establishing a “department of government efficiency” (DOGE) to downsize government ...

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This rhetorical and ideological vagueness obscures a pivotal point: there is no such thing as a singular form of democracy, ...

But the system that Socrates is rejecting, Athenian democracy of the 5th and 4th century BC, differs significantly from contemporary representative democracy. In Athenian democracy, only male ...

With so much turmoil in Washington and around the country these days, it’s easy to get caught up in the crises of the moment. These are, indeed, worth our attention – but so are ...

Wasn’t it, rather, an expression of the very democracy of which Sumption is, quite rightly, a devotee? Admittedly, the decision was taken by a plebiscite and not as an act of representative ...

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The student movement in Serbia makes decisions by direct democracy and debates matters for hours on end, yet everything runs ...

Representative democracy is based on a simple premise. It’s that ordinary citizens can make satisfactory judgments on complex public policy and political issues – or at least grasp ...