From an oligarchy to a democracy to a constitutional monarchy, there are many ways government can operate. The government is a representative democracy, meaning citizens vote for their government ...

This is the meaning of democracy, coming from the Greek, δημοκρατία (dēmokratía), “rule of the people,” which says nothing about economic interests predominating.

In the war year of 1943, with many of the world’s democracies conquered or besieged, E.B. White of The New Yorker was asked to write something on “the meaning of democracy.’’ The result ...

In his new book, “The Struggle for a Decent Politics,” the political philosopher Michael Walzer grapples with a definition.