Lee Drutman outlines how this winter of discontent for U.S. politics could spring seeds of renewal—if we mobilize voters and reform our elections.

Apparently, we can’t even trust these justices to follow their own very recent precedents.

In a blatant power grab, the Florida governor and some legislators seek to remove one of the only remaining checks on their authority.

14 Citizens’ assemblies and direct democracy was published in De Gruyter Handbook of Citizens’ Assemblies on page 183.

Miss the obvious, lose your republic

The SAVE Act would be one of the worst voting laws in congressional history.

Building on the seminal insights of Albert O. Hirschman, the Centre's research activities explore everyday practices of democratic participation and the changing forms of civic engagement that produce...

The real reason Musk, Zuckerberg, and Bezos are supporting Trump.

In this conversation, Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt examine the various types of countermajoritarian institutions and reflect on which are democracy-enhancing and which can potentially subvert democracy. Levitsky and Ziblatt show the connections between the strong countermajoritarian features of the U.S. political system and its ongoing democratic backsliding. They also consider how the trade-offs between countermajoritarianism and democratic stability have played out across the globe.

Support for democracy in America has fallen to alarming lows, even as voters desperately seek change. Proportional representation could re-energize our democracy

Proportional representation could help restore American democracy.

Electoral monitoring plays a key role in many countries in ensuring that elections are held under fair conditions. Even when election monitors cannot prevent deception, they can still make a vital con...

Rules of the Game – discussing democratic institutions · Episode

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Four takeaways on how voting maps made the difference in a tight fight for the House in 2024.

The current system is neither fair nor functional.

Last week, Liberal Democrat MP Sarah Olney managed to find time in the parliamentary schedule to make the case for a voting system that treats every voter fairly. ‘Ten-minute rule&

From now on, 1 500 officials within the EU Commission will have to publish their lobbying meetings to improve transparency.