If we’ve become a democracy, it would represent a deep betrayal of our Founders, who saw democracy as another form of tyranny. In fact, the word democracy appears nowhere in our nation’s two ...

Winston Churchill famously described democracy as the worst form of government “except for all the others.” He was saying, in effect, that the governing of a ...

As the country prepares to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence next year, now ...

Eva Meijer's new book is a fascinating, profoundly original, and important read about new ways of doing democratic politics ...

I’ve been a convener of global forums on direct democracy since 2008, and have been excluded or dismissed from gatherings looking at participatory or deliberative forms of democracy.

So Parliament took a new approach. It passed laws—the Sugar Act and Stamp Act— to raise revenue directly, bypassing the ...

Gilles Dauvé. The highest level of 60s and 70s radicalism can be summed up in one word: autonomy, i.e. the rejection of all mediations (State, union, party or ideology) by a militant proletarian ...

The Framers knew that in its pure form democracy could be dangerous. The writings of the founding era are replete with warnings of this fact: ...

On 17 July, the Government revealed its limited plans for political reform including reducing the voting age to 16, extending ...

Officially, our form of government in the U.S. is a representative democracy. This means citizens vote for their government officials. But Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is of a different opinion.

What's the difference between democracy and rule by mob? This is a pressing question. A man who has aptly been described as "the most successful demagogue-charlatan in the history of U.S. politics ...