Here we take what I guess historians would regard as a standard definition ... and that's also the era in which representative democracy really comes comes to the fore. So there's a fit, I ...

Democracy can be exhausting and frustrating, especially representative democracy, which takes the immediate responsibility of ...

In these exchanges, I try to get my interlocutor to define “democracy,” so ... we might be loosely labeled a representative democracy or a constitutional democracy, but what we are is a ...

Officially, our form of government in the U.S. is a representative democracy. This means citizens ... including examples. The general definition of an oligarchy is a form of government involving ...

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 ...

“That’s the definition of gerrymandering.” “This is part of a larger story of whether we truly have a representative democracy and how the rules are being written in a way where people don ...

Many were opposed to direct democracy and the possibility that demagogues could corrupt it or mob rule could overtake it. They instead designed a representative government in which “the people ...

The health of democracy has declined significantly in many nations over the past several years, but the concept of representative democracy continues to be popular among citizens across the globe.

Nor is that all. By reducing liberal representative democracy to a property of the “West,” champions of Afro-democracy simultaneously gloss over the success of liberal representative democracy ...

AI will impact the way our representative governments operate and have the potential to enhance or weaken the bond between citizens and their elected representatives in our democracy. Achieving ...