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ANKARA
NEWS: Two Turkish Cities Are Finalists for 'European Capital of Democracy'
Ankara and Denizli Join Brussels and Tirana on Short List
ADDIS ABABA
NEWSLETTER: The Planetocracy Is Coming, So Wear Your White Hats
Also: Impact Investing Against Democracy; Sub-Saharan Local Covenant; Cat-Mayor-Martyr
Myawaddy
ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES Myanmar's Local Centers of Scam
Junta and Its Local Affiliates Keep Scam Centers Running, Despite War and Global Pressure
Image by Democracy International of citizens participating in the European Citizens' Panel
European Union
€1.8 Trillion Through the Eyes of 150 Europeans
How would you allocate €1.8 trillion and shape the future of Europe for the next seven years? Defence?...
SALINAS CALIFORNIA
COLUMN Finding Health in a Cauliflower Field
Rolling back health benefits for undocumented migrants would betray success.
CORDÓBA Argentina
Top Prize in Participatory Democracy Goes to San Luis Potosi, Mexico
The Central Mexico City's "Building Citizenship" program of 284 citizen participation panels is now...
SETAGAYA
LOCAL SNAPSHOTS: Nobuto Hosaka, Mayor of Setagaya District, Tokyo
"In the future... we will replace a lot of elected representatives like myself"
PARIS
NOEMA Government 'With' the People
Closing the gap between citizens’ deliberation and binding action.
CORDÓBA Argentina
NEWSLETTER: Can Your City's Twin Save You? Militant Democracy,...
What's worth reading, watching and attending as May turns to June.
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
TIJUANA
COLUMN Call it the River Trump
The Endangered, Border-Crossing Tijuana River Needs Transnational Attention. A New Name Would Help.
MONTEVIDEO
APPRECIATION My Afternoon With Mujica
Uruguay's modest revolutionary and president has died