The Future of Representative Democracy poses important questions about representation, representative democracy and their future. Inspired by the last major inv

Representative politics is in crisis. Trust in politicians is at an all-time low. Fewer people are voting or joining political parties, and our interest in parl

It is usually held that representative government is not strictly democratic, since it does not allow the people themselves to directly make decisions. But here

John Keane's The Life and Death of Democracy will inspire and shock its readers. Presenting the first grand history of democracy for well over a century, it pos

DIVSince the end of the Cold War, the assumption among most political theorists has been that as nations develop economically, they will also become more democr