Paradoxically, the very success of democratic systems may thus also sow the seeds of their potential undoing. This is a ...

At the end of the 1920s, the “Rural People’s Movement” demonstrated against social decline. Their anger and bitterness was ...

In the context of the report, an electoral democracy is a system with fair elections and basic freedoms of the press, expression, assembly and association, whereas a liberal democ ...

Government meetings frequently push three, four hours or longer. Some say this discourages participation. Or is it just ...

In our modern age, the fall of democracy is seldom marked by a single, violent coup. It is a slow, insidious unravelling — the steady decay of institutions, the quiet bending of norms.

Syrian Democratic Forces commander-in-chief Mazloum Abdi. (Delil Souleiman/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images) The commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces, a U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led armed group ...