Democracy - Topics

Should the vote extend to sixteen-year-olds: Austria and Brazil are already testing it Is equality of opportunity enough or does it need equality of outcome? What protections do minorities need in a purely majoritarian system? Why do some Western constitutions get amended constantly and others almost never? What is the real difference between proportional representation and first past the post? What did the Chartists actually demand? Why do Western democracies find it so hard to agree on a shared national story? Presidential vs parliamentary government: which produces more stable administrations? How much do newspaper endorsements influence Western elections? What did Tocqueville get right and wrong about American democracy? How much does money decide elections in Western democracies? Does democracy need a certain level of prosperity to survive? Why do so many new democracies backslide within a decade of their founding elections? Why Europe moved to universal male suffrage and then full suffrage after 1917 What does majority rule really mean when majorities are temporary? Do term limits protect democracy or weaken it? Why do some democracies keep the same ruling party for decades? What happens when a Western liberal democracy starts sliding into illiberalism? Do citizens' assemblies produce better decisions than elected legislatures? Why is the unelected House of Lords still part of a Westminster parliament? How did populist movements on the left and right reshape Western democracy in the 2010s? Is direct democracy better than representative democracy? How much did social media change how Western democracies run elections? What is the difference between devolution and federalism? How did trial by jury spread across the common law world? How does Question Time in Canada or Australia differ from Westminster? Why do some democracies make voting compulsory and others do not? Could democracy ever work at the global level? Why do some Western countries elect their judges and others appoint them? How did universal male suffrage spread across nineteenth-century Europe? Why do Western democracies almost always regret the referendums they hold? Is the franchise the same thing as universal suffrage