Ruling is a skilled trade, Plato argues. And like any other trade, not everyone has the talent or the training to be good at ...

The Republic, the best-known work of ancient Greek philosopher Plato on democracy, authored around 375 BC, has shaped ...

There are two models of democracy. One is a direct democracy; the other is a representative democracy. In the former, ...

New polling shows that, given a slate of elements of democracy, Americans are least confident that elected leaders are ...

South Korea’s political culture is frequently trapped in a binary mindset where “different opinions are considered wrong”.

From the Greek word Kleptos, meaning thief, kleptocracy literally means rule by thieves. It’s a government where corrupt officials use their positions to steal ...

Imagine living in a country dominated by two political parties. This imaginary country is ostensibly a representative ...

But the system that Socrates is rejecting, Athenian democracy of the 5th and 4th century BC, differs significantly from contemporary representative democracy. In Athenian democracy, only male ...

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 ...

In our form of representative democracy, we directly elect individuals who best embody the collective interests of a given ...

Democrats Brandon Saffold and Carolyn Rush, candidates for Assembly in Legislative District 1, said Friday they oppose a bill ...

There are two models of democracy. One is a direct democracy; the other is a representative democracy. In the former, ...