Democracy is explained by giving the power to the government, with the consent of citizens, expressing their will … of democracy. Citizen participation is remarkable on two levels in the European government: one, as a citizen of European …

Constitutional democracy is in decline and many would-be autocrats try to elude constitutional constraints or even to …

the new constitution is in place. Sustaining democracy involves the reciprocal ability to impose costs on the other group …Most democratic constitutions fail. The estimated half-life of a democratic constitution adopted between 1789 and 2005 … democracy to survive, it must be self-enforcing in the sense that all parties with the power to disrupt democracy – such as an …

, they have been criticized as promoting technocracy to the detriment of democracy. A number of political scientists even … direct democracy, representative democracy, and expert decision-making. …

which we use to investigate the consequences of constitutional features of parliamentary democracy for the formation and …

"Oligarchy is a threat to the republic. Joseph Fishkin and William Forbath show that, for most of US history, Americans … saw the Constitution as responding to that threat by imposing on legislators a duty to break up oligarchy, block corporate …