The following is an excerpt from “Democracy InAction: How Citizen Apathy Threatens America and What We Can Do About It,” ...

At a time of sharp political divides and rapidly changing technological innovation, Archon Fung, co-director of the Program ...

Tova Wang, director of research projects in democratic practice at the Ash Center, shares her top picks for summer reads ...

The United States’ reputation as an exemplar of democracy appears to be eroding. In a poll taken earlier this year, almost three-quarters of U.S. respondents agreed that the country’s democracy “used ...

President Joe Biden addressed the second Summit for Democracy on Wednesday from the White House, building on what he billed as his administration’s “enduring commitment to boost democracy globally,” ...

The Athens Democracy Forum last week explored the world’s schisms in the face of threats from technology and shifts in the world order. By Roger Cohen Roger Cohen is the Paris bureau chief for The New ...

Editor’s Note: This roundup is part of the CNN Opinion series “America’s Future Starts Now,” in which people share how they have been affected by the biggest issues facing the nation and experts offer ...

Experts at the Democracy Forum in Athens this week will explore the global challenges to democracy and attempt to weigh how endangered it really is. By Steven Erlanger Steven Erlanger is chief ...

I call it democratism. It is an imaginative and idealistic understanding of popular rule that disdains ordinary people and looks to a cadre of so-called experts to operate the levers of power. Under ...

Assistant Professor of Government Hari Ramesh opens his new book Harnessing the State: Oppressed Groups and the Pursuit of ...

As a presidential election year approaches, Americans are returning to a familiar ritual: debating who deserves our vote. In early October, on the nation’s most-watched cable news channel, the ...

In the most democratic countries, such as Britain, elections will decide the next government or cause a substantial change in policy. In Russia, one of the least democratic, the vote is very unlikely ...