Steven Levitsky is the David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and a professor of Government. Democracy is in ...

Trump is ransacking the institutions that keep the nation going, including the IRS, CDC and NIH, which support not only democracy but life itself.

It is sufficient for such a government that the persons administering it be appointed, either directly or indirectly, by the people…” Every democracy that exists today fits the Madisonian definition ...

At the same time, countries across the continent appear increasingly amenable to military rule and the stability it can ...

For all of its faults and weaknesses, no serious competitor has emerged to capture people’s imagination or seriously ...

Might it also apply to democracy? For lovers of freedom and democracy (I’m equating the two for these purposes) the news has been grim for at least 18 years, according to Freedom House.

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius responded to U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance's criticism of European democracy on Friday at the Munich Security Conference. "Democracy does not mean that a ...

Others, like Taiwan, are relative newcomers to the field and showcase the breadth of participatory democracy tools being applied today. The island of Taiwan (36,000 km2, population 23 million ...