Rural areas often show higher voter turnout rates per capita and tend to have more civic participation and community ties, which can motivate voting. Also, smaller populations may make each vote feel ...

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His message is loud and clear: “it is up to all of us [as citizens] to fix this” and to stand up for what democratic values ...

Thirty years on, the patience of the poor is wearing thin as they are subjected to tardy, disrespectful service ...

Ghana, one of Africa’s most stable democracies, operates under a four-year presidential term system. Since the beginning of ...

Marjan Ehsassi is the executive director of the Federation for Innovation in Democracy - North America, an international organization working to increase citizen participation in policy making.

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An education expert is calling for schools to include democracy in their curriculum and extra-curricular activities for ...

emancipatory visions of the future through meaningful deliberation and participation in political and economic life by ordinary citizens.” There are many theories and models of direct democracy ...

When we come to give a definition of democracy in the Maltese context, the major idea in the mind of many people is that a modern democracy is representative democracy where citizens elect their ...