Direct democracy through state ballot initiatives, initiated by both citizens and legislatures, holds potential for policy change relating to a large array of important social issues, including ...

Our modern democracy has always been under attack, and no one ever knew. Democracy has been around since the time of the Ancient Greeks. Since then, the system of democracy has undoubtedly evolved ...

Occasionally I run across an interesting way to combine ideas into a single number. Often such efforts can be a distraction or mostly meaningless. It is nice, therefore, when I find that rare ...

Given the tumultuous state of politics in the United States, it’s understandable that many people are asking themselves, “What is democracy?” By definition, democracy is a form of government that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Democracy or autocracy symbol )Adobe Stock Images) First of all, is America really a democracy? How can a single election pose a ...

Uttam Khobragade is a retired bureaucrat, Dalit activist and member of All India Congress Committee (AICC). If I am asked whether democracy in today’s time is true democracy, the answer is far from a ...

A vote center in San Diego County. Courtesy Registrar of Voters If democracy is going to flourish on this planet, its practitioners must come to see themselves as members of the same team.

Americans today—indeed, it’s nearly unanimous on our earthly globe—accept democracy (or, “republic,” the representative type of democracy) as the supreme form of human government. The people should ...

Jeffrey McConnell, a republic is type of democracy, It is a representative democracy. A democracy is when citizenry has the right (and I would say duty) to participate in free and fair elections.