Democracy Local

MEMO We Govern the Way We Campaigned: Together

The Question of Your Transition, Mr. Mayor-Elect, Is How to Institutionalize the Democratic Energy That Brought You Here

The Technocrat and The Local Can Be Friends

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

ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES: A Small Town and the Last Coal Plant

In a Small Town in the Southern Philippines, the Stalling of a Coal Plant's Closing

SWIS: How Important Is Volunteering to Democracy?

If You Volunteer, You're More Likely to Understand Compromise and Democracy

NEW FEATURE: Where In the Democratic World is Bruno Kaufmann?

A Norwegian town on the Russia border feels pressure, and sees promise, in geopolitics

SWI: Does Democracy Make a Place Richer?

Do Prosperity and Democracy Still Go Together?

COLUMN: Why Can't I Quit This California-Invented Gambling Game?

Invented in Oakland, Fantasy Sports Has Us in Its Grip

NATIONAL CIVIC LEAGUE: Local Governments and Community Foundation

Potential Partners? And a Meeting on Sept. 30 in Chicago.

NATIONAL CIVIC REVIEW: Reimaginging the Local Public Meeting

A Case Study of Strengthening Local Democracy in a Colorado City

ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES: Not Our Trash

East Java Villages Struggle to Manage World's Plastic Waste

COLUMN: FIGHTING 'FIRE WITH FIRE' AND ALL-CAPS

Does being tyrannical really topple a tyrant?

ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES: Weaponizing Bureaucracy to Stifle Dissent

Hong Kong Uses Tax Audits, Licensing, Inspections