Astra Taylor’s new documentary What Is Democracy?, playing at the IFC Center in New York through January 31, is not about art. It has bigger fish to fry. But an art history lesson is at the ...

With the planned protests highlighting the stark divide between governance styles, some are left wondering: what exactly is the difference between democracy and authoritarian rule?

Deborah Meier and Harry Boyte discuss what democratic education and education for democracy involve. They identify "agency," both individual and collective or civic, as key.

Democracy, in my experiences in the civil rights movement, meant agency. It conveyed the vast, often invisible and scorned potential of African Americans for action, and also the potential of all ...

Democracy has had its fair share of critics. So what is it, and what should it be? A government by the people, for the people sounds like a good idea. But is democracy really all it’s cracked up ...

A democracy is a system where the power to make policy comes directly or indirectly from the people. We, in the U.S., we're not a direct democracy — which is like where everybody votes on every ...

From the different types of democracy to the history, here's everything you need to know to answer the questions 'what is democracy'.

Democracy in Distress A Special Series Introduction by Erin Pineda What is democracy? This seemingly simple question has a seemingly obvious answer: It means, literally and etymologically, that the ...

NPR's Michel Martin talks with political scientist Steven Levitsky of Harvard University about the future of American democracy.

Democracy in some Western countries has always had a universalizing effect, inasmuch as the new administrative class hoped to apply their “science of government” in all climes and continents.

A new book argues for making the U.S. a “true” democracy, but fails at the essential strategy of persuasion.

One of the most overlooked elements of this brave new world of digital democracy and digital diplomacy is the degree to which Twitter and Facebook now control democracy itself, with Twitter quite ...