Small communities can practise direct democracy: people meet and decide, or vote, on decisions concerning them all. In large ...

A transformative Dalit intellectual shaping Kerala's cultural and political landscape with democratic ideals and activism.

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Human rights activist Ribal al-Assad condemned European countries for lifting sanctions on Syria's new "terrorist" regime that is "killing civilians." ...

Utah has several tested and popular tools for the preservation of representative democracy. They include the Government Records Access and Management Act (or GRAMA), elections conducted by mail ...

In addition to inviting corruption, money in politics subverts our representative democracy by forcing elected officials to serve two masters: their constituents and their donors. The interests of ...

PRESENTER 2: Well, hang on. Democracy is a system of government where the power lies with the people through representation. We have a Representative Democracy in Wales and the UK so the people ...

Political opponents are still the congressman's constituents. Finstad doesn't represent just the people who voted for him.

breaking through the confines of ossified institutionalised politics and representative democracy. Students have effectively created what might be called a “disobedient institution”, partly ...

"It can be exhausting," Curcic told DW, "but we students don't believe in representative democracy. We've seen its flaws. When individuals represent us, there's always room for corruption and ...