- What it takes for a representative democracy to address political minority rule https://www.npr.org/2022/09/25/1125024826/what-it-takes-for-a-representative-democracy-to-address-political-minority-rule 10 comments politics
- Online ‘fake news’ is an existential threat to democracy - not because most people believe bogus content, but because of the corrosive effect it has on trust among citizens and their faith in democratic institutions representing them, according to a new study. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2022/fake-news-poses-corrosive-existential-threat-to-democracy-study 1842 comments science
- Democratic Party leader Song Young-gil criticized the US as a “second-tier democracy” that had “significantly overstepped its authority” when the US House of Representatives held a hearing about South Korea banning the launch of balloons filled with anti-Pyongyang leaflets. http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/996013.html 133 comments worldnews
- EU ready to help restore democracy to Myanmar - high representative https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/eu-ready-help-restore-democracy-myanmar-high-representative-2021-04-30/ 6 comments worldnews
- China will give itself power to veto any candidate for Hong Kong’s legislature, according to a draft proposal described on Friday by a top Chinese lawmaker that represents a significant blow to the city’s already limited democracy. https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20210305-china-to-overhaul-hong-kong-electoral-system-at-annual-party-congress 487 comments worldnews
- This Is Not Representative Democracy | The American people overwhelmingly favor conviction, and there is no chance the Senate will convict. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/02/impeachment-stakes-not-conviction-senate.html?via=rss 355 comments politics
- U.S. House of Representatives Upheld Democracy and Voted to Remove Greene from Her Committee Assignments https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/u-s-house-of-representatives-upheld-democracy-and-voted-to-remove-greene-from-her-committee-assignments 207 comments politics
- Op-Ed: Why the U.S. election still could represent a triumph of American democracy https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/07/op-ed-why-the-us-election-still-could-represent-a-triumph-of-american-democracy.html 12 comments politics
- Trump Represents a Bigger Threat Than Ever to U.S. Democracy https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/donald-trump-represents-a-bigger-threat-than-ever-to-us-democracy 42 comments politics
- These Countries Make Voting Mandatory. Could It Work In The United States? —Boosting voter turnout could restore trust in elections and make our democracy more representative. https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5ed1301ec5b6658234cf8796 76 comments politics
- Every Economic Question Is a Question of Power: The links between business, finance, and the state do not represent a perversion of liberal democracy — they are an unavoidable feature of capitalist political economy. https://jacobinmag.com/2020/05/every-economic-question-is-a-question-of-power 9 comments politics
- I Miss Being a Citizen of an Actual Representative Democracy https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a32420068/republicans-vote-by-mail/ 902 comments politics
- Releasing Citizenship Data Threatens Representative Democracy https://prospect.org/article/releasing-citizenship-data-threatens-representative-democracy 3 comments politics
- Supreme Court’s gerrymandering ruling represents a dangerous threat to our democracy https://www.minnpost.com/eric-black-ink/2019/06/supreme-courts-gerrymandering-ruling-represents-a-dangerous-threat-to-our-democracy/ 30 comments politics
- Conservatives’ Disingenuous Attacks on Democratic Reforms: What are they afraid of? A truly representative democracy. https://newrepublic.com/article/153373/conservatives-disingenuous-attacks-democratic-reforms 13 comments politics
- Kavanaugh’s Presence at SOTU Represented Failure of US Democracy https://truthout.org/video/kavanaughs-presence-at-sotu-represented-failure-of-us-democracy/ 261 comments politics
- Ana Maria Archila: Brett Kavanaugh’s Presence at SOTU Represented Failure of U.S. Democracy https://www.democracynow.org/2019/2/6/ana_maria_archila_brett_kavanaughs_presence 20 comments politics
- Republican Gerrymandering Has Basically Destroyed Representative Democracy in Wisconsin https://www.gq.com/story/republican-gerrymandering-wisconsin 418 comments politics
- Representative democracy? Democrats won popular vote for House, Senate and President but control only one https://www.newsweek.com/democrats-won-popular-vote-2018-midterms-1207230 695 comments politics
- PoW is used to measure consensus. The pools act as proxy for the miners, pools behave in a similar way to representatives within a democracy. In turn the miners act as a proxy for the economic majority. The economic majority rules, therefore it is the market that rules Bitcoin. https://twitter.com/Justin_Bons/status/1042319236838948864?s=19 16 comments btc
- Scott Walker's Rejection of Representative Democracy is Shameful https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/01/31/scott-walkers-rejection-representative-democracy-shameful 6 comments politics
- Could This Put an End to Gerrymandering? The Fair Representation Act, introduced today in the House of Representatives, would allow everyone to have a say in our democracy. https://www.thenation.com/article/could-this-put-an-end-to-gerrymandering/ 9 comments politics
- Western democracy—as represented by the US—is 'crumbling,' Chinese newspaper claims http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/19/western-democracy-as-represented-by-the-us-is-crumbling-chinese-newspaper-claims.html 457 comments worldnews
- Western democracy—as represented by the US—is 'crumbling,' Chinese newspaper claims http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/19/western-democracy-as-represented-by-the-us-is-crumbling-chinese-newspaper-claims.html 138 comments politics
- How statistics lost their power and why we should fear what comes next: The ability of statistics to accurately represent the world is declining. In its wake, a new age of big data controlled by private companies is taking over – and putting democracy in peril https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/jan/19/crisis-of-statistics-big-data-democracy 22 comments statistics
- [Serious] You should know about Josy Joseph and his book 'A Feast of Vultures: The Hidden Business of Democracy in India', lest it be banned or removed from circulation or whatever else. An explosive book, that clearly shows democracy is nothing but a completely false term to represent India. https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/4z5epj/serious_you_should_know_about_josy_joseph_and_his/ 13 comments india
- "Trump and Clinton don’t just have personal conflicts of interest that would affect their ability to govern, but they represent different dimensions of a larger corporate oligarchy that dominates American democracy." http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/clinton_and_trump_are_rich_and_that_could_be_a_problem_for_america_20160821 5 comments politics
- People endorse Bernie Sanders because they believe he can have a positive effect on the country, to change course from a path of oligarchy back to a true representative democracy. http://www.inquisitr.com/2735155/bernie-sanders-campaign-runs-on-people-power/ 340 comments politics
- Strong Unions, Strong Democracy -"Public sector unions — representing teachers, firefighters and the like — are the remaining bright spot in America’s once-thriving trade union movement." http://nytimes.com/2016/01/12/opinion/strong-unions-strong-democracy.html?wt.nav=opinion-c-col-right-region&action=click&clicksource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region&pgtype=homepage&region=opinion-c-col-right-region&referer= 10 comments politics
- Sanders: Kochs are trying to buy the Senate: "his is not what democracy is supposed to be about. Billionaires should not be allowed to spend hundreds of millions of dollars electing candidates who represent the wealthy and the powerful." http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/220882-sanders-kochs-are-trying-to-buy-the-senate 1530 comments politics
- Daniel Hollingsworth (Oregon) for US Senate, 2014 - Implementing direct democracy; citizens vote electronically on every bill. The senator casts a vote representing the decision of the People. http://digitaldemocracy.us/the_plan.htm 57 comments politics
- (Canada) The youth want education, the adults want jobs, the elderly want support, and what does Harper do? Today's headline: "Harper pledges $110M per year for Afghan army" This man does not represent us. This is not democracy. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2012/05/21/nato-summit-chicago.html?cmp=rss 31 comments worldnews
- An "American Idol" style show in China was canceled because the voting process was viewed as too representative of Western Democracy http://www.globalpost.com/dispatches/globalpost-blogs/the-rice-bowl/chinas-idol-style-show-riles-censors 234 comments worldnews
- This Parliament does not represent the people. Conservatives get 60% more votes than Libdems, yet 600% more seats. Join the campaign for democracy UK! http://www.takebackparliament.com 7 comments reddit.com
- Representative democracy is rule by the people. Corporations, chartered into existence over 200 years ago by the states, were meant to be our servants, not our masters. It is time to right this relationship. "Fight now or ‘kiss your country goodbye’ to Exxon, Wal-Mart" - Alan Grayson. http://rawstory.com/2010/01/grayson/?utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitterfeed 14 comments reddit.com
- Bush deserves to be impeached. But to undo the threat to democracy that he represents is going to take a whole lot more. http://www.theseminal.com/2008/07/18/impeachment-is-not-enough/ 46 comments politics
- I knew Bush doesn't give a rat's ass about my opinion, but I thought the Democrats..Pelosi would at least go through the motions of representative democracy. I WAS WRONG. http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/30010 15 comments politics
- Reddit book club: I have never read a book so in-line with the general consensus among Redditors than Robert Paul Wolff's In Defense of Anarchism. His positive views are open for debate, but his criticism of representative democracy is powerful. (see comments for a passage) http://www.amazon.com/defense-anarchism-new-preface/dp/0520215737 2 comments reddit.com
- It is funny that Reuters would represent 20% female representation in Chinese parliament as some kind of great problem afflicting a non democracy, while the US can’t get 20% in our own *elected* congress http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070912/wl_nm/china_party_women_dc 9 comments reddit.com
- Americans are conditioned to see our present form of government as a true representative democracy. We're almost incapable of understanding that we live in a plutocracy--rule by the wealthy. http://www.hermes-press.com/demtran2.htm 134 comments reddit.com