Across the world, democracies are grappling with a widening gap between citizens and those who govern. Australia is no ...

Democracy has had its fair share of critics. So what is it, and what should it be? A government by the people, for the people sounds like a good idea. But is democracy really all it’s cracked up to be ...

Sept. 15 is the United Nations’ International Day of Democracy, an annual moment to assess the health of democracy around the world. Unfortunately, as numerous studies have demonstrated, democracy has ...

Bringing the heterodox Marxist traditions of ‘workerism’ and the ‘autonomy of the political’ together with the feminist thinking of difference, Tronti underscores the identitarian tendencies of ...

Dr. Acemoglu is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Robinson is a professor at the University of Chicago. Remember the 1990s, when everybody thought liberal democracy was the ...

The United States has one of the oldest constitutions still in effect, but it can seem hard to find true believers. Republicans claim its principles, but let Trump choose its meaning, abrogating ...

With a record number of countries holding elections in 2024—including the U.S., where Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are battling it out for the White House this week—the future of democracy feels ...

Tufts’ current and former political science professors Jeffrey M. Berry, James M. Glaser and Deborah J. Schildkraut published ...

Scholar emphasises that without social and economic equality, political democracy becomes meaningless and vulnerable to ...

Trump’s rhetoric is not mere partisan bluster — it is a direct assault on the norms that preserve our nation. Allowing threats and calls for violence from the president to go unchecked risks eroding ...

The Yeongnam-Honam divide remains one of South Korea’s most persistent political cleavages. The ruling Democratic Party holds ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Amidst China’s growing military, economic, and diplomatic pressure on Taiwan and ...