Democracy is defined in many different ways. In another project, Varieties of Democracy, we wrestle with that question. In the book, we take the conventional approach in political science, and more ...

Can democracy in America be saved? One way to answer that question is to look backwards to our greatest time of crisis and to the president, Abraham Lincoln, who navigated us through it. How did ...

Researchers have carried out a new comprehensive assessment on how different people around the world understand the concept of ‘democracy.’ The results demonstrate that -overwhelmingly- people in ...

Thirty years ago, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was a widespread belief that democracy would rapidly spread to envelop the whole world. Now we’re worried about whether democracy can survive ...

In the Dec. 31 Post-Bulletin editorial "Stand up for democracy," it said the United States and Israel are the only nations willing to stand up for Iraq and Palestine democracies. Decades ago, we went ...

A Quinnipiac University poll conducted in late August found that 67 percent of U.S. adults think “the nation’s democracy is in danger of collapse.” That is what President Biden said in Philadelphia, ...