Today, democracies continue to grapple with declining trust and institutional corruption. Athens: Birth of Democracy examines ...

Evan Berman grew up in the Netherlands, studied and worked in the United States, taught in South Korea, and ran academic programs in Taiwan and New Zealand. Work in the last country facilitated his ...

Ancient Societies In Mexico And South Asia Were Democratic Long Before Europe Claimed To Invent It In A Nutshell A major new ...

A small corner of Belgium is recruiting ordinary citizens to help create policies. Participants say it’s renewed their faith in government. By Jenny Gross Reporting from Eupen, Belgium About two dozen ...

Countries that slide from democracy toward autocracy tend to follow similar patterns. To measure what is happening in the United States, the Times editorial board has compiled a list of 12 markers of ...

How can we fix American democracy? Preserving our democracy is as urgent a task as ever, but the question is how. Democracy is getting to be one of those words that, at least in our day-to-day ...

Worldwide, autocracies are on the rise, populists are gaining momentum, democratic societies are under pressure. Wars, inflation, fear of economic declineare causing great uncertainty. The ...

Alongside a deluge of new policies, this year has seen unprecedented political discourse about the nature of government: how much we should have, how efficient it can be, and whether bureaucracy will ...

Shea Charles, East Grand Rapids city manager, speaks during a panel discussion at the Ford School of Public Policy Tuesday afternoon. Randall Xiao/DAILY. Buy this photo. The Ford School of Public ...

Picture a middle school dance. On one side of the gym, governments at all levels — from federal to closer-to-home governments — stand in a huddle. On the other side, citizens cluster together. There’s ...

EUPEN, Belgium – About two dozen people met in a white stone parliament building in eastern Belgium on a recent Saturday. They held a lively debate over the region’s retirement policy and hashed out ...