I was honored to teach political science courses at South Dakota State University for 38 years. I confess that during those years I was committed to indoctrinating our students, not with a leftist ...

Democracy is a form of government in which political power is vested in the people. Key elements of democracy are free speech, dissent and holding those in power accountable. The U.S. is a democracy.

Bringing the heterodox Marxist traditions of ‘workerism’ and the ‘autonomy of the political’ together with the feminist thinking of difference, Tronti underscores the identitarian tendencies of ...

Researchers have carried out a new comprehensive assessment on how different people around the world understand the concept of ‘democracy.’ The results demonstrate that -overwhelmingly- people in ...

Democracy comes from the Greek words “demos”, meaning the people and “kratos” meaning to rule. So, a simple definition of it is, rule by the people.Some of the commonly understood essential elements ...

THIS YEAR the world will see an explosion of electoral activity. Whether this will be a global celebration of democracy is less certain. Even leaving aside sham votes in autocracies like Russia and ...

Democracy promotion is much in the news these days. The strenuous effort by the United States and its coalition partners to carry off a democratic transformation of Iraq has provoked a fierce, global ...

In the waning days of the 2020 U.S. presidential campaign, Utah Senator Mike Lee famously tweeted that the United States is “a republic, not a democracy.” Claiming to be a constitutional scholar, Lee ...

Liisa Laakso receives funding from the Nordic Africa Institute. There is growing interest in the state of academic freedom worldwide. A 1997 Unesco document defines it as the right of scholars to ...