A healthy democracy has free and fair elections, robust civil liberties, multiparty competition and minimal corruption. Does ...

The American democracy has always been the model for the Nigerian media, and by extension the country Nigeria. The U.S. is too important ...

President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday said that voters should exercise their right to vote by rising above all kinds of ...

It is in Bangladesh’s own interest that its coup does not translate into an Islamic coup and goes the way of Syria or ...

There are two models of democracy. One is a direct democracy; the other is a representative democracy. In the former, citizens elect people as “delegates” to the legislature to formulate laws and ...

All eligible voters choose them. A legitimate alternative to the word “republic” is “representative democracy.” Somehow, Republicans are afraid of that term. The recent letter that ...

Even autocrats felt the need to mimic democracy by holding sham elections. On the other hand, the elections of 2024 delivered defeats to incumbent leaders on every continent and left many countries ...

Increasingly, however, it is becoming plain that elections are not enough to ensure a peaceful and secure democracy. In such uncertain times ... the impact of lowering the voting age in other ...

An interesting column yesterday in the Washington Post. An excerpt: The crisis of democratic government then, is actually a crisis of progressive government. People seem to feel that they have ...

She will have to certify his election victory on January 6, after months of warning American voters that he was a threat to democracy (AFP via Getty Images) The upcoming certification stands out ...

Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Taiwan ’s government says China is redoubling efforts to undermine confidence in the self-governing island’s ...

(Charly Triballeau/AFP/Getty) Countries with more than half of the world’s population went to the polls last year. And the basic message they sent to their governments was one of dissatisfaction ...