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KATHMANDU
AWARDS Meet Democracy Local's Mayor of the Year
''The World Cannot Come Between Us'
POEM
The Technocrat and The Local Can Be Friends
Democracy Local's year-end poem is about the relationship at the heart of local governance
Photo from Asia Democracy Chronicles
Singapore
The City-State's 1% Illusion
Singapore tax increase leads to demands for tax relief.
Korea South
시장의 죽음 이후
자살과 스캔들 이후 한국의 지방 민주주의는 새로운 삶을 찾았습니다
Ukraine
Українські міста були лідерами демократії
A campaign sign in Central Jakarta, February 2024. photo by Joe Mathews
Global
How Losers Can Win
Karachi candidate declares his victory rigged. Indonesia mends its losers.
Mayor Park Won-soon in 2014
After the Mayor's Death
After suicide and scandal, Korean local democracy finds new life.
School group at Asian African Conference Museum, Bandung, Indonesia
Global
Do You Live in Democracy?
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Refugees resist on roof @ Berlin Gallery: www.montecruzfoto.org/31-08-2014-Demo-guertelstr-Refugees CC BY-SA 2.0 Deed
Germany
One-Third of My Neighbors?
The polls say the AfD has 1/3 support in my community. What does that look like?
Photo by Stephan Uttom Rozario
This Election Stole Christmas
Dhaka was quiet at Christmas—as Bangladeshis fear traveling because of election-related violence. (photo by
Aleksandra Wiśniewska (above), a 29-year-old political novice, who is now the youngest woman MP in Poland’s parliament. Courtesy of Aleksandra Wiśniewska/Instagram.
Poland
How to Win an Unfair Election
An exchange in Lodz reveals how the Polish opposition managed to defeat an authoritarian ruling party.
The presidential and vice presidential candidates of Taiwan's ruling DPP party (Photo by Joe Mathews)
Can Democracy Survive 2024?
2024 is the biggest election year in history. That may be bad for democracy.