How serious are the challenges to democracy today? One way to assess this is to examine historical experience, using the best global data available. Doing this, I find a picture that — although ...

The imperfect statesman was part of a generation that worked to repair the cracks in democracy’s foundation instead of ...

(Photo by Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images ... and it may well represent a realignment of US politics. What are the implications of a second Trump administration for democracy, for the future ...

XAUME OLLEROS/AFP/Getty Images A police officer shouts outside the Hong Kong government complexPicture: Getty Credit: Getty Policemen rest after pro-democracy protests in Hong KongPicture ...

Wade ruling. As someone who researches democracy, I know the answer isn’t simple. It depends on the kind of initiative and the reason that it comes to be held. The Chicago Center on Democracy ...

But Larry Diamond, Senior Fellow in Global Democracy at Stanford University, says a closer look at the same data reveals a darker picture: When democracy’s backsliding began in 2006, more than ...

Carter devoted himself to improving the health of people around the world, promoting democracy and resolving global conflicts.

American democracy is facing two distinct threats, which together represent the most serious challenge to the country’s governing ideals in decades. The first threat is acute: a growing movement ...

UNITED NATIONS: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that he represents a country that is proud to be known as the mother of democracy and cited his own rise from a tea seller at a ...