The subtitle of Maxwell L. Stearns' new book, “Parliamentary America,” is critical: “The Least Radical Means of Radically Repairing Our Broken Democracy.” Perhaps the worst single aspect of America's ...

Across the world, democracies are grappling with a widening gap between citizens and those who govern. Australia is no ...

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán during a meeting in the Oval Office on May 13, 2019, in Washington, D.C. Mark Wilson/Getty Images Hungarian leader and ...

(Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan elected a parliamentary speaker on Friday in a bid to end upheaval and violence and move the country towards a parliamentary democracy, the first in ex-Soviet Central Asia. Here ...

Current political and economic issues succinctly explained. Annual reports on the health of democracy this year reaffirmed an ongoing trend of decline, which has occurred alongside a less heralded but ...

COPENHAGEN, DenmarkCOPENHAGEN, Denmark — Nearly 300 signatories have signed an open 10-point letter before next month’s European Parliament election, saying lawmakers should be putting democracy at ...

The speaker of Ghana’s Parliament, Rt. Honorable Kingsford Alban Bagbin, addressed the media Wednesday regarding the controversy surrounding four parliamentary seats, reassuring them that democracy ...

Kyrgyzstan had, after previous experiences with strongman rule, restricted the presidency to a single term. Mr Japarov did ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's parliament has always been a boisterous and chaotic place that, like the country itself, still somehow worked: these days, it's not even muddling through. Proceedings ...

“The American System is, in many ways, more difficult, certainly far more expensive and much longer than parliamentary system, and I really admire the people who subject themselves to it. Even when I, ...

MUMBAI, India — India's Parliament voted on a crime bill and other legislation on Wednesday, even though dozens of opposition legislators were not present. It was the latest in a week of turmoil in ...

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Thursday asserted that India boasts the world’s best parliamentary democracy and urged citizens not to be disheartened by disruptions in the House.