Most Americans say democracy in the United States used to be a good example for other countries to follow but has not been in ...

G rumbling about the health of democracy can sound abstract. But its decline shows up in wars, coups, contested elections and curbs on civil liberties across the world. EIU, our s ...

Three new reports give some surprising reasons for optimism.

To kick off his Democracy Day breakout session Youth and Democratic Erosion, SNF Agora Fellow Scott Warren asked a small group of first-year students how they feel about the current state of democracy ...

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 ...

Claims that democracy is in crisis are certainly not new, but recent history has given the claim a new urgency. Over the past decade or so, there has been no shortage of people expressing concern that ...

Model homes sit vacant in the center of a 750-home housing development where construction was halted November 20, 2008 in Rio Vista, California. Land and property ownership have colored American ...

A South Carolina District 5 school board meeting is called into session on January 22, 2024. Democracy, at its core, is about people coming together to civilly govern themselves. With the rise in ...

Losing democracy once can make it harder to restore it, even after a democratic government returns to power. University of Birmingham professor Nic Cheeseman analyzed three decades of data.

Sweden’s V-Dem Institute warns that the US is no longer a liberal democracy. And autocracy is creeping across Europe too, says writer Martin Gelin ...

Five young people spearheading efforts around the world to bolster and restore democratic principles share what they have learned — and what needs to change. By Shivani Vora See more of our coverage ...

The first few weeks of Donald Trump’s second presidency have accelerated a process of democratic erosion in the United States. In just two months, the president and his allies have issued executive ...