Strengthening democracy and countering destructive elite power struggles requires letting the people shape policy proposals, not just choose between prepackaged partisan offerings. When politicians in ...

The Game Theory of Democracy. Countries where democracy is in trouble share a common pattern, and it’s a worrying one for the United States.

As part of the Serious Times Lecture Series, MA Critical Theory and the Arts and BFA Visual & Critical Studies presents a talk by Andreas Kalyv... Close preview Skip ... Democracy and the Poor: ...

Elon Musk has amplified a theory that only "alpha males" can be trusted to make good decisions, and should therefore be the ones to participate in democracy.. On Monday the billionaire ...

Democracy in the Workplace Is Under Threat Minorities of workers are choosing union representation for 100 percent of their colleagues. This is against the spirit of the law.

A core member of Hong Kong’s prodemocracy camp stood on the balcony of the city’s legislature a quarter century ago, his fist raised in the air, and promised to continue to fight for universal ...

In this ambitious work of political theory, Bagg argues that defenders of Western democracy tend to struggle because they fail to grapple with underlying material disparities of economic and social ...

T HE STRUGGLE over America’s elite universities—who controls them and how they are run—continues to rage, with lasting consequences for them and the country. Harvard faces a congressional ...

Caleb Muftwang, governor of Plateau state, has blamed the persistent security challenges in Nigeria on the elites.

The shape of Nigerian democracy is well captured by the columnist Israel Ejike, in his article titled “Nigeria’s definition of Democracy” published in ThisDay newspaper of October 14, 2018 thus: ...