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Representative Democracy and Crisis
Representative Democracy had its beginnings in ancient Rome, and since the birth of this model, it has moved substantially from the context of a...
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Representative Democracy, Political Disengagement, and Young People’s Perceptions of Legislators in Nigeria
Youth political disengagement and poor perceptions of the political system continue to dominate many democracies. While the phenomenon of youth voter...
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Representative Government’s Prospects
Around 1900 what we today call “democracy” and what was then usually called “representative government” looked as if it was the wave of the future....
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Chile’s Two Constitutional Reform Referenda 2022–2023: Symptoms of Democracy Development in Latin America
Chile is a special case of democratic evolution in Latin America and in many fields not representative of other nations on the continent....
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Political clientelism and democracy in Turkey
Political clientelism refers to a socio-political structure and set of relations formed by the reciprocal and personal exchange acts that the patrons...
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Voices from within: Tracing Chinese Public Perceptions of Democracy in the New Era
Despite the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) emphasis on whole process people’s democracy and democracy with Chinese characteristics, the type of...
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Deliberative Democracy
The problem of centralised power, failed institutions, interference of religion and ideology, endemic corruption, and the emergence of elites within...
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From Civil to Social: Disobedience as a Need for Transition from Representative Democracy to the Democracy of the Future
Classical civil disobedience is flanked by social disobedience and constituent disobedience, tending to produce political decision-making about the...
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Violent Riots and South African Satisfaction with Democracy
The past decade has witnessed growing challenges to democracies around the world, with rising levels of democratic discontent and political violence....
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Can democratic innovations reconcile citizens with representative institutions?
Can democratic innovations (DIs) offer a cure for the widespread loss of support for electoral institutions? This widely held assumption among...
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Introduction: Map** the Research Field on the Democracy–Sustainability Nexus
With each new report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the urgency to address climate change seems to increase. As the pressure to...
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Chinese Democracy
In the discourse surrounding the concept of Chinese democracy, there is a pervasive linguistic and rhetorical complexity marked by the use of terms...
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Can liberal democracy survive our fervor? Signs and origins of dysfunctional democracy
Human fervor is two-sided. On the bright side, it operates as the great driving-force for human progress, well-being and prosperity, gain of...
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Minzhu in the People’s Congress: Understanding the Chinese Way of Understanding Representative Democracy
Simplistic democracy-autocracy dichotomies can poison the Australia-China relationship because they lend space to suspicion and fear, and shut down...
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Direct democracy and equality: context is the key
Direct democratic instruments are increasingly applied in many European countries. They are subject to an ongoing public—and often highly...
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Intrapart Democracy
The intraparty democracy constitutes initiative by the CCP to implement democratic practices from top to bottom, and from within to without. As early...
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Consultative Democracy
The examination of consultative democracy in China has experienced a discernible decline since the convening of the 18th National Congress of the CCP...
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The democratic lessons learned—How experiences of (un-)equal treatment in school influence satisfaction with democracy in later life
Previous studies have shown that economic and political experiences influence the level of satisfaction with democracy; however, they fail to explain...
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The Emergence of Alternative Sociotechnical Imaginaries in Argentina’s Agricultural Sector: Lessons for Democracy and Sustainability
The question of how various actors envision sustainability transitions and which visions are translated into policy agendas is an important aspect of...
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What Is Democracy?
Democracy is one of the most widely used and highly contested terms in political science and politics. On the one hand, everyone agrees that there is...