The Future of Representative Democracy poses important questions about representation, representative democracy and its future. Inspired by the last major investigation of the subject by Hanna Pitkin ...

The Constitution is not a grant of power for a king.

A progressive group has unveiled an action plan for revving up political organizing on the left and resisting former ...

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Our representative democracy rests on a fundamental principle: We, the people, have a right to participate in decisions that ...

Kentucky League of Women Voters again documents how the General Assembly is undermining democracy and public participation in the lawmaking process.

Democracy is a simple concept: People exercise their collective agency to rule themselves so they can ensure their own well-being. Democracy is the opposite of autocracy, serving as a disavowal of ...

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 ...