Modern democracies are broken, but there is a way to fix them, according to Hélène Landemore. “I have good news and bad news,” Landemore said. “Bad news is electoral politics, it seems to me, is ...

When government systems collapse under complexity, democracy itself breaks down — fueling the populist frustration reshaping American politics today. When Democracy’s Operating System Crashes ...

Democracy is in crisis. Many people are losing confidence in political parties and parliaments and their ability to solve pressing social problems in the long term. Recent studies by the University of ...

Few developments have mattered so much, for so many people, as the global rise of democracy. Three hundred years ago, virtually no one lived in a democracy. As recently as the 1940s, at the darkest ...

Lost amid the cacophony over the bitter presidential campaign and the rampant concerns about the poor health of U.S. democracy is a set of initiatives on state ballots that are likely to have far more ...

Capt Ibrahim Traoré, who seized power in 2023, says democratic rule would not work for his country.

A conversation with Osita Nwanevu about the fatal flaws of our governing system, the need for a more egalitarian political economy, and his new book The Right of the People. There is no shortage of ...

One-party system in Nigeria's democracy is not the wish of Nigerians, we want to see diversification, we want other people to be given their chances. I believe democracy thrives when there is healthy ...

Mr. Levitsky and Mr. Ziblatt are professors of government at Harvard and the authors of “Tyranny of the Minority.” See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra más de nuestra cobertura en ...