Populist leaders exploit democracy to consolidate power, dismantle institutions and sideline expertise, threatening global ...

Small communities can practise direct democracy: people meet and decide, or vote, on decisions concerning them all. In large ...

He quoted Winston S. Churchill, who famously said, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others,” highlighting the pragmatic truth that, despite its flaws, democracy ...

Kenya on Tuesday defended a controversial meeting in Nairobi led by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), describing it as a nonpartisan platform for dialogue and rejecting accusations of ...

Senate Democrats on Monday launched a web portal for federal workers to report any misconduct within the Trump administration ...

New research from the University of Southampton has found that trust in representative institutions, such as parliaments, ...

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti’s leftwing party has won most seats in the weekend parliamentary election but was left ...

U.N. special envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen has said that formation of a “new inclusive government” in Damascus by March 1 ...

Following the Rwandan Patriotic Front’s (RPF) victory against the genocidal Rwandan government ... and changed the country’s name back to The Democratic Republic of Congo.

Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti’s leftwing party has won most seats in the weekend parliamentary election but was left ...

But that doesn’t mean the country won’t experience authoritarianism in some form. Rather than fascism ... But incumbents deploy the machinery of government to punish, harass, co-opt, or ...