The House of Commons backed using proportional representation (PR) at general elections in a surprise symbolic vote on Tuesday. Almost 60 Labour MPs supported a plan put forward by Sarah Olney, a ...

In American politics, the people are supposed to choose their leaders. However, in state after state, it’s increasingly the opposite: politicians choose their voters. The evidence of democratic ...

Democracy, in the immortal words of President Abraham Lincoln, is a government of the people, by the people, for the people. This pithy description makes democracy a sacrosanct concept that endures ...

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.

This proposition is a re­minder of how democ­racy began in Ancient Greece at about 500 BC. Fed up with monarchy, where one person ruled, and aristocracy that had a few privileged people gov­erning – ...

The Democratic Party of Korea is facing turmoil as an analysis suggests that if it does not create a satellite party and applies the mixed-member proportional representation system in next year's ...