Elections keep handing power to elites. Anand Gopal and Ben Burgis debate whether choosing officials by lottery, as ancient Athens did, would be an improvement on representative democracy.

The past year has seen several self-identified democratic socialists prevail in key local races. But what exactly does it ...

Democratic systems are political regimes in which governance is based on popular sovereignty, regular competitive elections and the protection of fundamental liberties. Research in this field examines ...

These are tense times. Climate change threatens billions of people around the world. Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is slowing. And 35 years after the end of the cold war, ...