If democracy is going to flourish on this planet, its practitioners must come to see themselves as members of the same team. Unfortunately, global democracy is a field divided. And not primarily by ...

“Democracy is the worst form of government,” Churchill is said to have said, “except all those other forms that have been tried.” Actually, what he excepted was “all those other forms that have been ...

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 ...

A constitutional republic is a form of democracy. Last Saturday's "No Kings" protest spurred conversations, counter-protesting and misunderstandings. A video the Gazette posted of peaceful protestors ...

Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? For well over a decade, scholars and pundits have proclaimed that democracy ...

Respondents in 24 countries were asked about different forms of governance, including representative democracy, direct democracy, autocracy, technocracy and military rule. Elements of representative ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Winston Churchill remarked: “democracy is the worst form of government – ...

The By-invitation section publishes commentaries by outside thinkers from a wide range of perspectives. For a view calling for China to move towards a constitutional democracy, read a commentary by ...

A third of Turkish adults are satisfied with the way democracy is working in their country, while the other two-thirds express dissatisfaction. More than a third (37%) say they are not satisfied at ...

Edward Webster receives funding from the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung. Many of the recent debates about democracy in South Africa point to the danger of growing authoritarianism or stress how the ...

James Walter previously received funding from the Australian Research Council. We are social beings. So, within every group, decisions must be made about how to live together, preserving wellbeing and ...