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 ...

For the 16th consecutive year, Norway was named the most democratic country in the world, with a score of 9.81. New Zealand and Sweden followed. Afghanistan has been the lowest-ranked country since ...

About half of Americans say democracy is performing poorly, according to a survey. The Charles F. Kettering Foundation/Gallup Democracy for All Project survey found that 51 percent of respondents ...

How quickly can a government fall? Chile was once one of Latin America's oldest democracies, but that all changed in a matter of hours after a military coup on September 11, 1973. Some supported the ...

Virginia Eubanks is a journalist, writer and political scientist at the University at Albany, State University of New York. Her most recent book is Automating Inequality (2018). In Rewiring Democracy, ...

Six months before she died, in October 2021, former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright published a memorable essay in Foreign Affairs, “The Coming Democratic Revival.” Amid rising pessimism ...

Stanford Continuing Studies, a program that shares educational resources with adult students, hosted the sixth and final installment of its “Reimagining Democracy” speaker series on Nov. 11.

A little more than 80 years ago, a group of young military officers joined with Venezuela’s main opposition party to overthrow the country’s ruling dictator. The man who took power, Rómulo Betancourt, ...

How can we fix American democracy? Preserving our democracy is as urgent a task as ever, but the question is how. Democracy is getting to be one of those words that, at least in our day-to-day ...

A conversation with Osita Nwanevu about the fatal flaws of our governing system, the need for a more egalitarian political economy, and his new book The Right of the People. There is no shortage of ...

Stanford will celebrate its fifth annual Democracy Day on Nov. 4 in a day-long celebration of civic engagement marked by events, panels, mixers and activities. Despite it being a non-election year, ...

There’s a large and obvious disconnect in the Democratic Party strategy for combating Donald Trump this year and in the 2026 midterms. Democratic elites and many activists (not to mention millions of ...