The Constitution included elements of both direct and indirect representation (the House and the Senate, respectively), but dictated that ratification would be done not by state legislatures but ...

Direct democracy processes play an important role in state policy making related to the myriad drivers of population health and health disparities. Stakeholders who are focused on public policy ...

From the originary, Athenian meaning of democracy to the Civil War-torn Americans’ etiolated, watered-down version of indirect, representative parliamentary democracy was a very long stretch indeed.

October 21, 2024. Events of the past decade have prompted frenzied discussion of the state of democracy across the globe. In countries across Europe, Latin America, and Asia—as well as, of course, in ...