Democracy, simply put, is rule by the people.
But functioning democracies are complex, for good reason.

Main Pages

• Flaws of U.S. Electoral Systems

• Electoral Systems

• US Democracy

• Outline of Ziblatt and Levitsky’s Tyranny of the Minority

Threats to Democracy

• Abuse of Power

• A President Trying to Remain in Power after Losing his Reelection

• Disinformation

• Electoral Subversion

• Gerrymandering

• Tyranny of the Majority

• Use of Authoritarian Methods

• Voter Suppression

• Voter Fraud, Not so Much

Protecting and Expanding US Democracy

• Proposals for Protecting and Expanding Democracy

• Democracy Advocacy Groups

Global Democracy

• Democracy Ranking Organizations