The original Proportional Representation (PR) system of 1978, is despised by sections of the general public and academia due ...

A saying popular in anarchist circles holds that “Elections are the means by which we choose the sauce with which we will be ...

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Convening a panel of five experts in constitutional law, the courts and government relations, Congresswoman Becca Balint ...

Indeed, one ought to see representative democracy as a front for capitalism. The issue confronting us is overwhelmingly one of narrative inadequacy. People are outraged by contingencies, ...

Elected executives – the president, governors, and mayors – no longer have effective authority over the operations of ...

In the introduction to their 2011 book, The Future of Representative Democracy, Sonia Alonso, John Keane, and Wolfgang Merkel note that Thomas Jefferson was a proponent of representative democracy, ...

This stability, while perhaps offering relief when compared to our chaotic national politics, helps mask a deeply problematic institutional reality: Our state’s representative democracy isn’t ...

One day into Trump’s first term, I saw thousands of children learning what democracy looks like at the Women’s March.

Democracy can be exhausting and frustrating, especially representative democracy, which takes the immediate responsibility of ruling out of the hands of ordinary citizens and puts it in the hands ...

The reason why we call this view anti-representative democracy, rather than direct democracy, is that we wish to emphasize the antagonistic component of this view, that is, the claim that ...

towards a robust ‘representative democracy’ via ‘country-first’ nominations on merit order basis In 2018, the, complex MMV System resorting to appease FPP Camp using ad hoc ratios was ...