Has South Dakota soured on direct democracy? The answer to that question will be partly answered during the 2025 legislative session, as Republican lawmakers continue a recent trend of trying to ...
In contrast, direct democracy effaces boundaries and separations while subjecting everything to the public political imperative. This imperative repels the exploration of possibilities in ...
But democracy takes various forms, and has done for millennia. Derived from the Ancient Greek "demos" (people) and "kratos" (power or rule), the word broadly means "rule by, or power of, the people".