A saying popular in anarchist circles holds that “Elections are the means by which we choose the sauce with which we will be ...

Convening a panel of five experts in constitutional law, the courts and government relations, Congresswoman Becca Balint ...

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Indeed, one ought to see representative democracy as a front for capitalism. The issue confronting us is overwhelmingly one of narrative inadequacy. People are outraged by contingencies, ...

To me, it spoke to the true essence of democracy. As a progressive Democrat and a longtime resident of La Plata County, I’ve ...

In the introduction to their 2011 book, The Future of Representative Democracy, Sonia Alonso, John Keane, and Wolfgang Merkel note that Thomas Jefferson was a proponent of representative democracy, ...

Democracy can be exhausting and frustrating, especially representative democracy, which takes the immediate responsibility of ruling out of the hands of ordinary citizens and puts it in the hands ...