That’s the modern era, and that’s also the era in which representative democracy really comes comes to the fore. So there’s a fit, I think between the concept and and the historical era.

It’s among the world’s oldest forms of government, but it’s increasingly under threat. These books consider the sources and effects of an alarming global trend.

Elections are no guarantee of democracy. That much we know from who holds them. Even full-blown tyrants crave the legitimacy that, in the modern era, can be provided only by the ballot box ...

Among the reckonings necessary in the wake of Trump’s reelection is jettisoning the notion that patriotism and democracy are synergistic.

In response to my last piece on explaining modern democracy to a three-year-old, someone wrote, “I taught my kids about democracy: I had them vote for which pizza place they wanted to go to, and ...

But modern democracy – or rather democracies – owe their origin more specially to the American and French Revolutions and their respective aftermaths.

"In From Development to Democracy: The Transformations of Modern Asia, Dan Slater and Joseph Wong seek to explain why democracy emerged in some countries, has been tried in others and is unlikely ...

Houston Matters Concerts explore the concepts of freedom and democracy through song. The Apollo Chamber Players string quartet is collaborating with young musicians from HSPVA for a pair of ...

“The year 2024 is an important one for democracy,” Stasavage said. “Citizens in sixty-four countries – including, of course, in the United States – will go to the polls to decide who should govern.