India held its General Elections 2024 in seven phases, from April 19 to June 1, 2024. Approximately 650 million voters exercised their right to vote out of the total eligible voters, about 960 million ...

Significantly, in what raises questions about the functioning of this vital tier of Indian democracy, several states besides Maharashtra have also seen local body elections being postponed in ...

Yet this is what happened when I picked up veteran academic and writer Zoya Hasan’s new book, Democracy on Trial: Majoritarianism and Dissent in India, published by Aakar Books. Its opening ...

Democracy is not just about numbers, chief justice of India (CJI) Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud has empahsised, underlining the foundational role that constitutional accountability plays in a democracy ...

A few months back, I was presenting to a local service club. The CPAC convention had just ended, and their opening speaker said, “Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it ...

Equal Opportunity and Nondiscrimination at Princeton University: Princeton University believes that commitment to principles of fairness and respect for all is favorable to the free and open exchange ...

This year, the Atlantic staff writer Anne Applebaum was awarded the German Book Trade’s Peace Prize for her “indispensable contribution to the preservation of democracy.” Applebaum is the ...

In this episode of Democracy Optimist, Josh Douglas' guest is Jennifer Morrell, a former election official and now CEO and Co-Founder of The Elections Group, an organization that helps to support ...

July 8, 2024 • While Democracy Works is on summer break, we bring you an episode from our friends at Making Peace Visible, a podcast that ignites powerful conversations all over the world about ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Raw democracy When members of the public voice their political concerns through various media, they are participating in a democracy.

In short, the world is increasingly choosing sides in an ideological and practical confrontation, which makes the picture of the leader of the world’s largest democracy, India, making nice with ...

Zack Beauchamp is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he covers ideology and challenges to democracy ... has proven himself obsessed with two ideas: exerting personal control over the federal ...