Guest columnist Walter Suza notes that "we are a nation, like any other nation, where to be human is also to be a ...

Donald Trump is attempting to replace our democratic Republic with a plutocratic dictatorship that looks a lot like Vladimir ...

Coffman, Katherine Baldiga. "Representative Democracy and the Implementation of Majority-Preferred Alternatives." Social Choice and Welfare 46, no. 3 (March 2016): 477–494.

This, of course, is at the heart of representative democracy: that we elect people to make decisions on our behalf. If most Americans disagree that this is working well, that’s a threat to ...

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Why did I attend the protest in Cloquet on Presidents Day? One might think that I was protesting the November election, but this is not the case. We live in a representative democracy, meaning that we ...

Do ordinary citizens still have a voice in Washington and in their state capitals? Despite the cynicism of these times, my answer is, yes, we do … But we have to exercise it. I don’t ...

PRESENTER 2: Well, hang on. Democracy is a system of government where the power lies with the people through representation. We have a Representative Democracy in Wales and the UK so the people ...