According to Cambridge Dictionary, Representative democracy is a form of governance where the people elect individuals through free and fair elections to represent them in the legislative houses, make ...

Direct democracy was common in the pre-modern world, but that isn't the subject here: The authors identify two principal roots of what they deem modern representative democracy. First is the presence ...

Thirty years ago, after the fall of the Berlin Wall, there was a widespread belief that democracy would rapidly spread to envelop the whole world. Now we’re worried about whether democracy can survive ...