Democracy

Sheikh Nahid Neazy, associate professor and chair, Department of English, Stamford University Bangladesh. Illustration: TBS
Thoughts

Of democracy and epistocracy

Election alone cannot guarantee democracy if the state machineries are not strengthened enough to function independently

Among the EU’s problems is that it has both a north-south divide – because of the poor design of the euro zone – and an east-west divide. Photo: Bloomberg
World+Biz

The big question: Can the European Union remain a community of democracies?

People cheer after Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden overtook President Donald Trump in the Pennsylvania general election vote count, across the street from where ballots are being counted, three days after the 2020 US presidential election, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US November 6, 2020. REUTERS/Mark Makela
Analysis

America’s democracy demotion

Joe Biden at a meeting about a mass shooting in Orlando, Florida, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington June 13, 2016. SAUL LOEB/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES/Foreign Policy
Analysis

Biden can’t stop America’s democratic decline

Monowarul Hoque.
Thoughts

The US election is over, yet not over

When mad king Trump is above democracy!
Analysis

When mad king Trump is above democracy!

Demonstrators holding hands march to The Grand Palace to hand letters written to the king, as part of a rally to call for the ouster of Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha's government and reforms in the monarchy in Bangkok, Thailand, November 8, 2020. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun
World+Biz

Thai protesters march to palace to demand royal reforms

Dr Mohammad Didare Alam Muhsin
Thoughts

Americans, too, have to fight for democracy!

Mark Tully.
Thoughts

The degeneration of electoral democracy

The close of a BJP election rally attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Gaya district, Bihar, on Oct. 23. Photo: Bloomberg
World+Biz

Leader of the world’s largest democracy faces first pandemic poll test

Historic US turnout still lags behind major democracies
Panorama

Historic US turnout still lags behind major democracies

FOForeign Policy Illustration/Reuters And Getty Images
US Election 2020

Here’s how the 2020 US elections resemble those of fragile democracies

FILE PHOTO: Elections official Bernie O’Hare waits to help voters use a new Election Systems & Software ExpressVote XL voting machine, an electronic voting system with a backup paper trail, during a practice demonstration in Hanover Township, Pennsylvania, US, October 5, 2019. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo
World+Biz

Millennials get little satisfaction from democracy - Cambridge study