Protesters hold a massive rally near the National Assembly in Seoul, South Korea on Saturday, December 7, 2024, calling for President Yoon Suk Yeol's ouster after his martial law attempt. Yoon ...
As a “Fight Club” of eight senators led by Bernie Sanders challenges Democratic Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s handling of ...
Taiwan’s democracy didn’t emerge from peaceful reform alone but from decades of authoritarian rule that unintentionally laid ...
Whether a glass is half full or half empty is a matter of perspective. The same can be said about the half of Americans who oppose the idea of allowing presidents to rule unilaterally—an exercise of ...
It was 1776. The US was a baby nation-state. It was very proud of itself for its radical new democracy, the first, it was claimed, since the ancient Greeks. Great decision-making power was conferred ...
Democracy as a system of governance has its attractions, which include, but are not limited to, political tolerance, a ...
Legal experts, political advisors and scholars from across the political spectrum are warning that a second term for Donald Trump could mean effectively ending democracy in America, a threat they say ...
Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Unadulterated power in any branch of government is a menace to freedom, but concentrated power across all three branches is the very definition of ...
In this pathbreaking empirical study, Lee and Paine illuminate the complex ways in which colonialism shaped the prospects for democracy in countries emerging from imperial rule. Surveying over a ...
Stearns is the Venable, Baetjer & Howard Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law. He is the author of PARLIAMENTARY AMERICA: The Least Radical Means of Radically Repairing ...
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” That quote is from the writings of H.L. Mencken, reporter for the Baltimore Sun newspaper ...
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A democracy fretting to be a dictatorship
Where religious fervour meets political ambition, citizens are relegated to the sidelines, forced to endure the full weight ...
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