The organization “The General Strike” aspires to mobilize approximately 11 million people committed to coordinating a massive work stoppage. The magic number of 11 million equals 3.5 percent of the US ...

Washington, like most of the Western states, has “direct democracy” measures on top of representative democracy ones.

It was probably just bad timing. The online research I was doing for a literary project was way outside my comfort and time zones. It concerned a lynching in Georgia in 1915. Not my usual focus, and ...

Once again, Republicans in the Missouri legislature have shown that they have no respect for the voters in Missouri, or democracy. An article in the News-Leader on Sept. 9 detailed how they are ...

What is the difference between representative government and the government in ancient Athens? In a representative government, there is no institutional role for the assembled people. However: ...

It is hard enough to promote or save democracy when the public is relatively united in its desire to do so. The experience of the “color revolutions” in former Soviet Republics offers powerful ...

It has of late become en vogue, at least in some circles, to claim that the United States, rather than a democracy is, in fact, a republic. This begs the question: What’s the difference? Recently, I ...

According to Cambridge Dictionary, Representative democracy is a form of governance where the people elect individuals through free and fair elections to represent them in the legislative houses, make ...