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This column is adapted from Gov. Newsom’s "Democracy at a Crossroads" address on June 10. Democrat Gavin Newsom is governor of California.

Democracy, he argued, is not representative government, where the people select appointees to make decisions for them. That's Roman nonsense. Democracy is a daily exercise.

KATHMANDU -- Democracy is under strain in Nepal as a growing number of disillusioned voters call for the restoration of the monarchy.

SACRAMENTO — An overwhelming number of California voters think American democracy is being threatened or, at the very least, tested, according to a new poll released Thursday by the UC Berkeley ...

I'm just back from Mongolia, a competitive democracy in between Russia on one hand and China on the other. We had a big celebration of 10 years of deliberative polling.

For democracy and elections, the crucial point is that the one depends on the other. We elect representatives to make the laws we must abide by. To succeed, elections must be transparent and fair ...

The authors are political scientists who study how democracies come to an end. How will Americans know when we have lost our democracy? Authoritarianism is harder to recognize than it used to be ...

A voter leaves the polling booth after casting her ballot in state assembly elections in Mumbai, India, on Nov. 20, 2024. (Photo by Indranil Mukherjee/AFP via Getty Images) Public dissatisfaction with ...