Most Americans say democracy in the United States used to be a good example for other countries to follow but has not been in ...

Freedom House found that over the last two decades, media freedom, freedom of personal expression, and due process have ...

Democracy is failing because its implementation has been too rigid and detached from the societies it is meant to serve, and ...

Much of today’s public discourse suggests that democracy is eroding — under threat, unraveling, or being dismantled. These conversations often fall along familiar partisan lines, with each side ...

Winston Churchill once said that ‘Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.’ And in ...

G rumbling about the health of democracy can sound abstract. But its decline shows up in wars, coups, contested elections and curbs on civil liberties across the world. EIU, our s ...

Editorial: Gerrymandering is a serious threat to voters’ faith in democracy. It’s time for Congress to take action.

Claims that democracy is in crisis are certainly not new, but recent history has given the claim a new urgency. Over the past decade or so, there has been no shortage of people expressing concern that ...

“The United States of America is a federal republic: a federation of states governed by written constitutions,” wrote Russell Kirk. The Constitution created a republican form of government. A ...

Certainty is not what democracy is about. You don’t have the luxury of sitting on the sidelines until you’re ready to be seen ...

Renowned Pan-Africanist and legal scholar, Professor Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba, has affirmed that Ghana’s democracy is a ...

I fell in love with democracy before I fully understood it. In high school civics classes in the 1990s, I learned about a ...