For as long as we’ve had democracies, majority rule has left some in the minority worse off. We need to be talking about what ...

But even if patched, can our thin model of representative democracy inspire the civic engagement and trust necessary for government to work? For Hollie Russon Gilman, the answer is no, and the ...

Representative democracy is based on a simple premise. It’s that ordinary citizens can make satisfactory judgments on complex public policy and political issues – or at least grasp ...

It surveys theories of participatory and deliberative democracy, and their relationships with representative democracy, as well as themes of coproduction, collaboration, and social accountability; and ...

Democracy is in crisis. Many people are losing confidence in political parties and parliaments and their ability to solve pressing social problems in the long term. Recent studies by the ...