Evidence for Democracy (E4D) is a non-partisan Canadian non-profit organization which advocates for evidence-based policy-making in the government. It...

rights. The notion of democracy has evolved considerably over time. Throughout history, one can find evidence of direct democracy, in which communities...

Social democracy is a political, social, and economic philosophy within socialism that supports political and economic democracy and a gradualist, reformist...

Direct democracy or pure democracy is a form of democracy in which the electorate decides on policy initiatives without elected representatives as proxies...

on economic growth and effect of economic growth on democracy can be distinguished. While evidence of a relationship is irrefutable, economists' and historians'...

Great about democratic states in India, but lacks evidence for elections considering the word "democracy" around the 3rd century BCE could mean any autonomous...

The New Politics of Numbers: Utopia, evidence and democracy is a multi-author book edited by sociologists Andrea Mennicken and Robert Salais and published...

Representative democracy, electoral democracy or indirect democracy is a type of democracy where representatives are elected by the public. Nearly all...

that actually the theory cannot claim that "democracy causes peace", because the evidence for democracies being, in general, more peaceful is very slight...

Democracy indices are quantitative and comparative assessments of the state of democracy for different countries according to various definitions of democracy...

E-democracy (a blend of the terms electronic and democracy), also known as digital democracy or Internet democracy, uses information and communication...

The Democracy Indices by V-Dem are democracy indices published by the V-Dem Institute that describe qualities of different democracies. It is published...

The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) is a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization in the United States founded in 1983 with the stated aim...

Liberal democracy, western-style democracy, or substantive democracy is a form of government that combines the organization of a democracy with ideas of...

birthplace of democracy and remains an important reference point for democracy, as evidenced by the etymological origins of democracy in English and...

Workplace democracy is the application of democracy in various forms to the workplace, such as voting systems, debates, democratic structuring, due process...

co-founder and executive director of the Canadian advocacy group Evidence for Democracy (E4D). In 2006, Gibbs completed a Bachelor of Science degree in...

democracy in China has existed in Chinese politics since the 19th century. Chinese scholars, thinkers, and policy-makers have debated about democracy...

Criticism of democracy, or debate on democracy and the different aspects of how to implement democracy best have been widely discussed. There are both...

Deliberative democracy or discursive democracy is a form of democracy in which deliberation is central to decision-making. Deliberative democracy seeks quality...

Against Democracy is a book by American political philosopher Jason Brennan. It contains the writer's critical perspectives on democracy, a form of government...

for the hypothesis that democracy causes peace, but strong evidence for the opposite hypothesis that peace leads to democracy. Christian Welzel's human...

supports political democracy and some form of a socially owned economy, with a particular emphasis on economic democracy, workplace democracy, and workers'...

(1996). Liberalism and the Problem of Knowledge: A New Rhetoric for Modern Democracy. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0226898452. Portals: Liberalism...

Media democracy is a democratic approach to media studies that advocates for the reform of mass media to strengthen public service broadcasting and develop...

"democracy is likely to devour itself." Around the world, citizens are voting away the democracies they claim to cherish. Scholars present evidence that...

decisions are informed by the best available evidence. Bill C-558 was endorsed by Evidence for Democracy, the Canadian Association of University Teachers...

There exist a number of perspectives on the relationship of Islam and democracy among Islamic political theorists, the general Muslim public, and Western...

and to advocate for social progress, i.e., for positive change as defined by any of several standards such as the expansion of democracy, increased egalitarianism...

suffrage which was promoted to advance democracy and bring the presumed moral influence of women into politics. For many progressives, prohibition of alcoholic...