Small communities can practise direct democracy: people meet and decide, or vote, on decisions concerning them all. In large ...

A House committee decided to flout democratic processes, deciding to vote on a bill without input from the public due to icy ...

A divided House committee on Monday advanced two bills to regulate how signatures are gathered in Arkansas for citizen-led ...

Ecuador’s electorate will go to a runoff vote in April in a highly polarized climate. At stake is a broader political struggle between authoritarianism and democracy.

While it's roots date back hundreds of years, Town Meeting Day is a fascinating example of modern civics at play in the 21st century.

Another world is possible, and impressive strides in democratic progress are being made right now—but not in the USA.

In 2016 the United Kingdom’s Natural Environment Research Council proposed to allow the internet to vote on a name for its ...

For all of its faults and weaknesses, no serious competitor has emerged to capture people’s imagination or seriously ...

President Donald Trump is moving to give the White House direct control of independent federal regulators such as the ...

At a time when the West has its own internal contradictions regarding democracy coming to the fore, it is the right moment ...