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 ...

While it’s unclear what exact political path Syria will take, the dilemmas the country faces are similar to the experiences ...

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

Winner-take-all is the electoral software that generates two dominant parties and relegates third parties to playing the role ...

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 ...

Nicolás Maduro has been sworn in for a third term as Venezuelan President in spite of accusations of stealing the election, 11 th -hour protests across the world, and a new reward for information ...

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 ...

President Biden took a departing jab at Trump, saying that what the president-elect did was a "genuine threat to democracy." Ahead of the anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol ...