An ambitious strategy of democracy promotion is poised to be a major pillar of U.S. foreign policy for many years after 9/11.

The Chinese government has increasingly adopted the rhetoric of democracy to describe its political system, claiming in a 2005 white paper that the “building of democracy with Chinese characteristics is...

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...

This bookoffers a rational choice theory of democratic consolidation in a survey of the breakdowns of and transitions to democratic institutions.

On both sides of the Atlantic, “citizenship” is the subject of vital and often contentious policy debates. In the United States, a nation famously founded on a creed rather than blood ties, the question of what it means to be an American citizen has always been central to the country’s...

On both sides of the Atlantic, "citizenship" is the subject of vital and often contentious policy debates. In the United States, a nation famously founded on a creed rather than blood ties, the question of what it means to be an American citizen has always been central to the country's...

A review of Thomas B. Edsall's Building Red America: The New Conservative Coalition and the Drive for Permanent Power.

Three disturbing trends now underway in Europe together represent the greatest erosion of democratic practice in the world's advanced democracies since 1945.