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AWARDS Meet Democracy Local's Mayor of the Year

''The World Cannot Come Between Us'

The Technocrat and The Local Can Be Friends

Democracy Local's year-end poem is about the relationship at the heart of local governance

California Ballot Measures from 2010 via Flickr by Josh Heller

This Poll Makes You Deliberate

A digital version of the Deliberative Poll encourages democracy, more cheaply.

Mexico City Is My Real Capital

In California, we're closer to CDMX than DC. And not just geographically.

How Culture Frustrates Democracy

Our patriarchy and economic obsessions have slowed democracy—and inspired backlash.

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Make Your Council Bigger

Better cities have bigger city parliaments.

Photo courtesy of Houses of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Gender Equality Publishes Final Report press release, December 2022. Creative Commons License 2.0. Via Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/oireachtas/

The Meaning of Irish Defeat

A Roundup from Barcelona to Nelson Mandela Bay

CC 4.0 license. Demonstration in Hong Kong north coast against pseudo-universal suffrage., 2015

Make Voting Rights Universal

Truly universal suffrage doesn't exist. Let's change that.

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Waiting in Pain

In Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts, Indigenous people tell Asia Democracy Chronicles that they are at...

Lead photo by Anders Henrikson, 2014 (Creative Commons license)

Please Don't Save Democracy

It's not a penalty shot. Or a dollar in the bank.

Illustration Courtesy Asia Democracy Chronicles

The Hong Kong Diaspora's Power

How Hong Kongers continue to fight for democracy from abroad.

Seoul of Seoul photo by Bruno Kaufmann

March to Democracy Events

A busy March for democracy.