When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Direct democracy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy

    The strength of direct democracy in individual countries can be quantitatively compared by the Citizen-initiated component of direct popular vote index in V-Dem Democracy indices. [40] A higher index indicates more direct democracy popular initiatives and referendums, shown below for individual countries. Only countries with index above 0 are ...

  3. Opinion: Why Speaker Johnson says America is not a democracy

    www.aol.com/news/opinion-extreme-wing-agenda...

    CNN’s John Avlon writes that new House Speaker Mike Johnson’s words that “we don’t live in a democracy” show there’s a trend among right-wing leaders to dismiss a majoritarian democracy.

  4. Democracy in America - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_in_America

    The primary focus of Democracy in America is an analysis of why republican representative democracy has succeeded in the United States while failing in so many other places. Tocqueville seeks to apply the functional aspects of democracy in the United States to what he sees as the failings of democracy in his native France.

  5. Opinion - What does an America without democracy look like ...

    www.aol.com/opinion-does-america-without...

    It doesn’t take a political science expert to realize that the America Trump has in mind can’t coexist with democracy— and that Trump’s most committed voters don’t actually want to ...

  6. Democracy or Constitutional Republic: Which is it in America?

    www.aol.com/democracy-constitutional-republic...

    Opinion: Democracy in America will only die if we let it. A recent point of contention in Pennsylvania was Gov. Josh Shapiro's unilateral decision to implement automatic voter registration in ...

  7. Democracy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy

    A subsequent wave of democratisation brought substantial gains toward true liberal democracy for many states, dubbed "third wave of democracy". Portugal, Spain, and several of the military dictatorships in South America returned to civilian rule in the 1970s and 1980s.

  8. Federal government of the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Government_of_the...

    The U.S. government is based on the principles of federalism, republicanism and democracy, in which power is shared between the federal government, state governments, and the people. It is a mixed system, neither pure republic nor pure democracy, often described as a democratic republic, representative democracy, or constitutional republic.

  9. Opinion: America is a secular democracy - AOL

    www.aol.com/news/opinion-america-secular...

    Robert Montgomery: Religious views cannot be used by the government as a justification for government action.