A new report from the University of East Anglia has raised concerns about the state of democracy around the world during 2024 ...

Of 23 countries surveyed, median of 58% of adults were dissatisfied with democracy. Pew says many are frustrated with ...

As Northeast and North Central Nebraskans prepare to celebrate Independence Day, we take note of the 2024 Best Countries ...

The Trump regime has decimated the Agency for Global Media, restructured the State Department to eliminate a global democracy ...

The 2024 Best Countries report from U.S. News & World Report asked people from 36 countries to respond to the statement, “My country’s leader should have total, unchecked authority.” ...

Presuming some kind of representative democracy, I think it could work well for very large countries given a few prerequisites: 1. Mandatory voting.

Barbara Wejnert, a political sociologist at the University at Buffalo, who studies global democracies, said diplomatic efforts through U.S. broadcasters and democracy nonprofits helped precipitate ...

True representative democracy—for more than just the privileged classes—is about 240 years old (dating to the American Revolution). Thus, what we think of as democracy has only been around for ...

New research from the University of Southampton has found that trust in representative institutions, such as parliaments, governments and political parties, has been declining in democratic ...

Under his leadership, the AU undertook election observation missions in 15 countries with recent successes in Ghana, Botswana and Namibia. Some co-observers told journalists that these peacefully ...