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VADUZ
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While the Citizens’ Assembly 2025 went ahead at the national level in Switzerland last year, a similar project in Geneva was cancelled at short notice by local authorities in early 2026. Keystone / Alessandro Della Valle
GENEVA
SWI Are Citizens Assemblies Declining With Democracy?
Long-Planned Assembly in Geneva Canceled by Authorities Just Before It Was to Begin
LOS ANGELES
COLUMN Do Blindfolds Bridge Local Divides?
Gabriel Kahan's Creative Assemblies Get Cops, Screenwriters, and Localities to Come Together and Listen
BUDAPEST
WHERE IN THE WORLD IS BRUNO KAUFMANN? Budapest
Watching How Local Democracy Made Orban's Defeat Possible
LOS ANGELES
Democracy Local Is a New Regional Partner of Consul Democracy
Consul Democracy Is a Complete Citizen Participation Too for Open, Transparent, Democratic Government
LOS ANGELES
VIDEO Voices From the First Citizens Assembly in Los Angeles
The sortition lottery-selected group urged historic changes to LA's charter
Banner image by Asia Democracy Chronicles
CHIRANG DISTRICT
ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES Bhutan's Blind Spot
In Land of Himalayan Happiness, Political Prisoners Spend Decades In Decrepit Jails
DIYAKAPILA
ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES Halting Fights Between Locals & Elephants
Sri Lankan Governments Ignore a Science-Based Mitigation for Human-Elephant Conflict
Photo via Oklahoma City government
OKLAHOMA CITY
INTERVIEW America's Most Popular Mayor, America's New Olympic...
David Holt Says His Now Olympic City Succeeds Because "We Invest In Ourselves"
CALIFORNIA
COLUMN Reform Is Coming. Just Wait 100 Years
California Spends the 2020s Instituting Reforms From the 1920s.
MEXICO CITY
LOCAL SNAPSHOT Mayor Clara Brugada
'The Poor Come First, and For the Poor, Only the Best'