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CORDÓBA Argentina
NEWSLETTER: Can Your City's Twin Save You? Militant Democracy, Databases, and Goodbyes
What's worth reading, watching and attending as May turns to June.
Jamaima Afridi for Asia Democracy Chronicles, courtesy Asia Democracy Chronicles. (Jamaima is also that story's author)
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SETAGAYA
LOCAL SNAPSHOTS: Nobuto Hosaka, Mayor of Setagaya District, Tokyo
"In the future... we will replace a lot of elected representatives like myself"
Photo credit; Democracy Next
PARIS
NOEMA Government 'With' the People
Closing the gap between citizens’ deliberation and binding action.
TIJUANA
COLUMN Call it the River Trump
The Endangered, Border-Crossing Tijuana River Needs Transnational Attention. A New Name Would Help.
BARCELONA
EVENT VIDEO Deliberative Democracy's Future in a Digital Age
A Carnegie Event Looks at Why Digital Deliberation Grows in Some Places, Not Others
MONTEVIDEO
APPRECIATION My Afternoon With Mujica
Uruguay's modest revolutionary and president has died
JALAUR RIVER
ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES Dams, Disputed Lands, Contested Rights
Indigenous People in the Philippines Battle Over Control of Their Lands
RIVERSIDE
COLUMN The COG in Local Government's Future
A finalist for the "All-America City" award isn't a city at all. It's a council of many governments.
Vörå (Finland)
Letter From Vörå: The Song and Sauna of Local Democracy
A song from Finland's Swedish-speaking and oft-divided region goes to the Eurovision contest
EDITORIAL
The World's Greatest Comeback
Europe is now the leader of the free world.
photo via NCL
UNITED STATES
NATIONAL CIVIC LEAGUE Creating a Democracy Where People Are Heard
In Democratic Practice, It's Time to Go on Offense