Deep political polarization and an underdeveloped party system – coupled with powerful social movements – have been identified as “flawed” aspects of South Korea’s democracy. These factors are, in ...

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Sabeel Rahman is an Assistant Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, and a Fellow at the Roosevelt Institute. In addition to his academic work, he has worked as a consultant and advisor for a ...

The last time democracy nearly died all over the world and almost all at once, Americans argued about it, and then they tried to fix it. “The future of democracy is topic number one in the animated ...

As we enter the 2024 election season, there is growing focus on the state of democracy in the United States and the potential threats it faces going forward. In an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll at the ...

Admiral Stavridis (Ret.) was the 16th Supreme Allied Commander at NATO and is Vice Chair, Global Affairs at The Carlyle Group and Chair of the Board of the Rockefeller Foundation. He is the co-author ...

Public dissatisfaction with democracy continues to outweigh satisfaction across 12 high-income countries that Pew Research Center has surveyed consistently since 2017. Across that set of countries – ...

A police officer sits on a car at the headquarters of the National Unity Platform in Kampala, Uganda, in January 2021. Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images The pandemic is exacerbating a decline of ...

The greatest threat to American democracy today is not a repeat of January 6, but the possibility of a stolen presidential election. Contemporary democracies that die meet their end at the ballot box, ...

Among the enduring contributions of the Greek empire to Western society is the foundation of democratic society. But what did the development of Athenian democracy actually involve? One of the ...

Young people’s faith in democratic politics is lower than any other age group, and millennials across the world are more disillusioned with democracy than Generation X or baby boomers were at the same ...