Sept. 15 is the United Nations’ International Day of Democracy, an annual moment to assess the health of democracy around the world. Unfortunately, as numerous studies have demonstrated, democracy has ...
The Introduction to the revised second edition of my book Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government Is Smarter (Stanford University Press) is now available for download on SSRN. The ...
As part of its Democracy Day programming, Carnegie Mellon University hosted an event titled “Advocacy 101: Finding Your Voice Through Transit Activism” on Nov. 12. Speakers included Alex Hiniker, ...
Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! In Athens during his final foreign trip as president, President Obama explains ancient Greek's influence on essential qualities of democracy. His ...
The Center for Popular Democracy works to create equity, opportunity and a dynamic democracy in partnership with high-impact base-building organizations, organizing alliances, and progressive unions.
The question of how we grasp social democracy and its current retreat is now more than ever a practical one. The institutions of social democracy continue to be the focus of many contemporary ...
There’s always an emergency, it seems, to justify the Left’s rush to tyranny. There are two rules for illiberal democracy. The first rule is that during an emergency certain illiberal and ...
China pledged to preserve much of what makes Hong Kong unique when the former British colony was handed over in 1997. Beijing said it would give Hong Kong fifty years to keep its capitalist system and ...