Gerrymandering is a symptom of the failure of representative democracy. Political minorities are surrounded by others who ...

What unites Madison, Dahl, and Kateb is their shared belief that democracy needs to be saved from the people by political leaders.

Specifically, some early Americans warned against a direct or “pure” democracy, which they likened to mob rule. In a pure democracy all those who are eligible to vote (who were often a small part of ...

Indeed, one ought to see representative democracy as a front for capitalism. The issue confronting us is overwhelmingly one of narrative inadequacy.

Founding Father James Madison may have best described the difference between a democracy and a republic: “ (The difference) is that in a democracy, the people meet and exercise the government in ...

Democracy can be exhausting and frustrating, especially representative democracy, which takes the immediate responsibility of ruling out of the hands of ordinary citizens and puts it in the hands ...

The United States is both a democracy and a republic — these terms are not mutually exclusive. In Federalist No. 39, founding father James Madison defines a republic: ...

As a representative democracy, we need normalized representation — one man, one vote. The Senate must go, and with it the Electoral College. They are vestiges of our reprehensible slavery heritage.