Historically, America has expanded the right to vote — first to all men, regardless of property, then to Black Americans and ...

Are you an aspiring lawyer? Or, are you interested in a career as a government official? Perhaps you’re simply interested in learning about Western politics and how our political landscape became what ...

Al Gore at the 2000 Democratic Convention. (Franklin McMahon / Corbis / Getty Images) In the early years of the United States, almost no one called the country’s highly unusual experiment in popular ...

In practice, most of our experiences of shared realities are not involved in truth. Think of myths, neighbourly feeling, or ...

Over 2,400 years ago, during the time of the Peloponnesian War that engulfed Greece, the leader of the Greeks, Pericles, delivered his famous ‘Funeral Oration’ to commemorate the soldiers who died in ...

In this ambitious work of political theory, Bagg argues that defenders of Western democracy tend to struggle because they fail to grapple with underlying material disparities of economic and social ...

AT the present moment it is not possible to predict whether the Western nations who are now fighting Naziism will be able to develop an economic society as efficient, from the point of view of ...

Political violence is eroding the overall health of democracy in the United States, according to more than 100 global scholars surveyed for a new report. The report, released today by Johns Hopkins ...

Satisfaction with democracy is largely split across the 19 countries surveyed: A median of 51% say they are satisfied with the way democracy is working in their country, while 48% are not.

Our politics is intimately linked to the environmental conditions - and crises - of our time. The challenges of sustainability and the discovery of ecological limits to growth are transforming how we ...