Understanding how numbers scale is crucial to a functioning democracy. A broad appreciation for the differences in thousands, millions, and billions is only a start, though. If we are ever going ...

THIS YEAR reliable old Europe once again did best in the global democracy index, an annual report published by EIU, our ...

What kind of democracy do legislators want? This question was at the center of a recent discussion with Melody Crowder-Meyer, ...

A rating on the health of American democracy indicated the U.S. is in poor shape — and trending in the wrong direction.

In the benchmark survey, known as Bright Line Watch, U.S.-based professors rate the performance of American democracy on a ...

and the United Kingdom evaluated how unfavorably or favorably they viewed the U.S. on a four-point scale. Half of the respondents received an overview of a hypothetical report on how democracy is ...