Switzerland is the only country in Europe that practices direct democracy: citizens get to vote on important changes to the constitution, rather than leaving it up to the politicians and government.

Grassroots consultative democracy has been developing in China, and meeting the practical needs of social governance. The forms and channels of democracy created by China's democratic practices at the ...

Respondents in 24 countries were asked about different forms of governance, including representative democracy, direct democracy, autocracy, technocracy and military rule. Elements of representative ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. A hotel manager, overwhelmed with guests’ complaints about slow elevators, turned to elevator companies ...

When I lived in China, a decade ago, I often saw propaganda billboards covered in words that supposedly expressed the country’s values: Patriotism. Harmony. Equality. And … Democracy. Indeed, China ...

Over the past decade or two, concerns about democracy’s future have moved to the center of political debate. In many long-established democracies once thought stable and secure, polarization has risen ...

Claims that democracy is in crisis are certainly not new, but recent history has given the claim a new urgency. Over the past decade or so, there has been no shortage of people expressing concern that ...