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 ...

Another term for this type of government is representative democracy. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? Whatever you call it, these are all describing the same thing. So the next time someone asks if ...

These are, indeed, worth our attention – but so are longer-running developments that threaten the health of our representative democracy. I want to lay them out in one place, so that the most ...

Representative democracy, in contrast, would “refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom may best discern the true ...

New research from the University of Southampton has found that trust in representative institutions, such as parliaments, ...

This rhetorical and ideological vagueness obscures a pivotal point: there is no such thing as a singular form of democracy, writes Annabel Ahuriri-Driscoll.