Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One correspondent of mine writes that “most Americans did not know who and what they were voting for,” adding that few people ...

When people feel unsafe, powerless, or unseen, democracy becomes harder to sustain. Its resilience begins with the ...

For more than 30 years, Stanford political scientist James Fishkin has been exploring and demonstrating the capacity of small, representative "mini-publics" to make thoughtful meaningful political ...

Jan-Werner Müller, scholar of democratic theory and the history of political thought, was named Class of 1943 University Professor of Politics. He sat down with the ‘Prince’ to discuss his research, ...

During a 2017 Meet the Press interview, then-Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway used the now-infamous phrase “alternative facts” to describe a false statement. The phrase was one of the early ...

“Vox populi, vox Dei” — the voice of the people is the voice of God. In theory, American democracy is built on a system in which citizens, regardless of wealth or status, can all steer the course of ...

In his fifteen years as prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orban has steadily chipped away at his country's democratic freedoms. We go to Budapest to see what the erosion of democracy looks like and we ...

What Does It Mean to Be Madisonian? It has been commonplace for generations to refer to the constitutional system as Madisonian—a concept that can be a good aspect or a bad one, depending on one’s ...

What explains this behavioral disconnect on the part of voters? There are several theories I propose to analyze. Ignorance theory One correspondent of mine writes that “most Americans did not know who ...