Democracy

Six Ways to Reform Democracy

Creating a more productive politics for the future.

  • Luis Ricardo Fraga
  • Archon Fung
  • Heather Gerken
  • Samuel Issacharoff
  • Pamela S. Karlan
  • Alex Keyssar

The Rebel and Mr. Danger

Is Bush’s nightmare Venezuela’s salvation?

  • Greg Grandin

Hamas’s Next Steps

Finding the road to Palestine.

  • Helena Cobban

The Brotherhood

How far will Egypt’s Islamists go? 

  • Stephen Glain

Freedom Reigns

But it isn't enough.

  • Nick Bromell

The Citizens of Porto Alegre

Participatory budgeting has become a school of democracy in Brazil.

  • Gianpaolo Baiocchi

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The Nation in a Room

Turning public opinion into policy.

  • James S. Fishkin

Learning from Athens

Success by design.

  • Josiah Ober

Ending Polarization

The good news about the culture wars

  • John Gastil
  • Dan M. Kahan
  • Donald Braman

France’s Revolt

Can the Republic live up to its ideals?

  • John R. Bowen

Manifesto

An argument for democracy in Taiwan

  • The Editors of Taiwan
  • Theodore Huters

On Belonging

What we owe people who stay.

  • Joseph H. Carens

Fear No Freedom

The Sharansky-Bush hypothesis—that spreading freedom will usher in an age of peace—has stymied the human-rights movement.

  • William F. Schulz

American Salvation

The place of Christianity in public life.

  • Albert J. Raboteau

Hizbullah’s New Face

In search of a Muslim democracy.

  • Helena Cobban

Rich World, Poor World

On Francis Fukuyama’s State-Building.

  • Mick Moore

Exporting Democracy

The UN and the rebuilding of Kosova.

  • Ralph Cintron
  • Stevan Weine
  • Ferid Agani

Believing in America

An intellectual project and a national ideal.

  • Leo Marx

The Patriot Act on Campus

Defending the university after 9/11

  • Jonathan R. Cole

Brazil’s Hope

Can President Lula redeem democracy in Latin America?

  • Leonardo Avritzer

Islam and the Challenge of Democracy

How can a democratic conception of the people’s authority be reconciled with an Islamic understanding of God’s authority?

  • Khaled Abou El Fadl
with responses from
  • John L. Esposito
  • Nader Hashemi
  • Noah Feldman
  • Jeremy Waldron
  • M.A. Muqtedar Khan
  • A. Kevin Reinhart
  • Saba Mahmood
  • Mohammad Fadel
  • Bernard Haykel
  • William B. Quandt

The Blame Game

Almost unanimously, Democrats and liberals are pointing the finger at third-party candidate, Ralph Nader. 

  • George Scialabba

A Warning from History

Don’t expect democracy in Iraq.

  • John W. Dower

Can Social Movements Save Democracy?

Lessons from grassroots organizing.

  • Archon Fung
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