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In this pathbreaking empirical study, Lee and Paine illuminate the complex ways in which colonialism shaped the prospects for democracy in countries emerging from imperial rule. Surveying over a ...

This is the biggest year in the history of democracy. Nearly half the human race will cast a ballot in some form or other of a national election in 2024. It is, optimistic observers say, a reminder ...

“Democracy, once taken for granted as an inalienable civic right … now seemed little more than a quaint historical memory amid universal bureaucratic rule of autocratic monarch, oligarchic group, or ...

Given the tumultuous state of politics in the United States, it’s understandable that many people are asking themselves, “What is democracy?” By definition, democracy is a form of government that ...

One of the characteristics of human societies everywhere is stratification. Move anywhere in the world and you will find out that there were three broad classes of people everywhere, the rulers at the ...

President Biden has seemingly decided that highlighting threats to democracy will help him get some traction in the 2024 election, using his remarks last Thursday at the McCain Institute in Arizona to ...

In this busy year of national elections around the world, NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with election watchers from Ghana, Venezuela and Georgia about how democracy is being challenged where they are. 2024 ...