Most democratic countries in the world operate a representative democracy. Nigeria is, in theory, one of them! But a representative democracy is predicated on two fundamental assumptions.

This, of course, is at the heart of representative democracy: that we elect people to make decisions on our behalf. If most Americans disagree that this is working well, that’s a threat to ...

In polls put to respondents in a spread of 24 countries, researchers found that enthusiasm for “representative democracy” has ...

Democracy offers citizens the choice to freely make political decisions by majority rule. It was defined by Abraham Lincoln ...

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 ...