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Ecuador’s electorate will go to a runoff vote in April in a highly polarized climate. At stake is a broader political ...

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Another world is possible, and impressive strides in democratic progress are being made right now—but not in the USA.

The student movement in Serbia makes decisions by direct democracy and debates matters for hours on end, yet everything runs like clockwork. What drives the students? What are their goals?

And this can be realised in a number of ways. The classical Greek form was direct democracy, also known as deliberative or participatory democracy. This involved male citizens participating ...

Swiss President Karin Keller-Sutter has described US Vice President JD Vance’s speech at the Security Conference in Munich as a “plea for direct democracy”. She shares many of the values ...