Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about pressing issues in legal education and society at large. Preservation Of Democracy Has Emerged As One Of The Most ...

This is the biggest year in the history of democracy. Nearly half the human race will cast a ballot in some form or other of a national election in 2024. It is, optimistic observers say, a reminder ...

In this pathbreaking empirical study, Lee and Paine illuminate the complex ways in which colonialism shaped the prospects for democracy in countries emerging from imperial rule. Surveying over a ...

David Stasavage is the dean for the social sciences and the Julius Silver Professor in New York University’s department of politics and an affiliated professor in NYU School of Law. He is the author ...

President Biden has seemingly decided that highlighting threats to democracy will help him get some traction in the 2024 election, using his remarks last Thursday at the McCain Institute in Arizona to ...

A new study has challenged long-held assumptions about the origins and history of democracy and democratic practices. An international team of scholars has uncovered evidence that collective ...

“Democracy, once taken for granted as an inalienable civic right … now seemed little more than a quaint historical memory amid universal bureaucratic rule of autocratic monarch, oligarchic group, or ...

One of the characteristics of human societies everywhere is stratification. Move anywhere in the world and you will find out that there were three broad classes of people everywhere, the rulers at the ...

BERRIEN SPRINGS, Mich. (WSBT) — As America celebrates 250 years, many local communities are reflecting on the history that helped shape the nation, especially when it comes to democracy and our court ...