Democracy faces a decline as expansionist autocracies, populists, and degraded international norms rise. The future of ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Annual reports on the health of democracy this year reaffirmed an ongoing trend of decline, which has occurred alongside a less heralded but ...

Political globalism” bears the unmistakable signature of an oligarchized democracy. No matter how we vote, a small elite ...

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While these high ratings are good news for local democracy in general, when we break down the results by whether communities ...

When U.S. President Joe Biden invited leaders of the free world to the virtual Summit for Democracy in December 2021, China was not happy. In response, Beijing held its own “Advanced Democracy Summit” ...

A small corner of Belgium is recruiting ordinary citizens to help create policies. Participants say it’s renewed their faith in government. By Jenny Gross Reporting from Eupen, Belgium About two dozen ...

James Walter previously received funding from the Australian Research Council. We are social beings. So, within every group, decisions must be made about how to live together, preserving wellbeing and ...

Claims that democracy is in crisis are certainly not new, but recent history has given the claim a new urgency. Over the past decade or so, there has been no shortage of people expressing concern that ...

There’s good reason to fear that A.I. systems like ChatGPT and GPT4 will harm democracy. Public debate may be overwhelmed by industrial quantities of autogenerated argument. People might fall down ...

In a Times/Siena survey, respondents’ concerns about democracy often diverged from typical expert analysis. By Nate Cohn A rally called Save America last week in Mesa, Ariz. People have very different ...