Once dreaded as implacably fraught, the transition of power in post-apartheid South Africa was incredibly democratic and ...

America has two major political parties, but we have far more than two ideologies among our representatives and voters. Both the divide between the two parties and the factions within the parties are ...

Thanks to the intransigence of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema on the legislative filibuster, any notion of Congress making a sustained push for democratic reforms is functionally dead. Voting rights ...

2022 appears to be yet another year in which the “lesser evil” narrative has driven much public debate. While the anger with Democrats for not making meaningful action toward fulfilling their campaign ...

With an increasingly polarized Congress and fewer competitive elections, there are growing calls among some election reformers to change how voters elect members of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Free and fair elections are a critical element of a healthy democratic system. And in many of the 24 countries surveyed, reforming how elections and the electoral system work is a key priority. People ...

With Congress increasingly polarized, there are growing calls to replace the winner-take-all approach for House elections with a system that... Many voters say Congress is broken. Could proportional ...