John Boehner and Eric Cantor want to see Congress approve or disapprove major agency resolutions. Democrats will offer a grab bag of excuses for why this should not be done.

Proponents of District of Columbia representation in Congress should try to craft a solution that will be mutually acceptable to both Democrats and Republicans.

The United States cannot afford to have a nonfunctioning Senate just because it falls below the constitutional requirement of half its members.

In American and European history, arguments over taxation--the power of the purse--have been key in the development of democratic institutions. Ideally, paying taxes stimulates demand for accountability, and accountability is a foundation of good governance. But many developing countries generate relatively little revenue from domestic taxation, financing government instead through...

While markets are again correctly obsessing over Italy and Spain’s poor economic growth prospects, as reflected in markedly higher government bond yields for those two countries, they seem to have taken their eye off two upcoming political events that could usher in a new and more serious phase of the...

TheIMF is now desperately seeking to restore its legitimacy with a radically recharged Asia by persuading on the merits of co-operating to address the large global payment imbalances.

Many international organizations and prominent political scientists support proportional representation (PR) as the fairest and most viable electoral system for nations undergoing a transition to democracy. But is proportional representation truly more democratic than an American-style system? How do the perceived advantages of PR match up against the challenges nations...