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Hungary election
Hungary
The opposition understood the assignment.
The Hungarian 3-step plan to beat an authoritarian.  Autocrats around the world will study Orbán’s successes: how to consolidate power over time, how to reward loyalists, how to weaken watchdogs, and how to loot the state while...
USA
MAP Healthy Democracy Ecosystem
The first comprehensive look at the organizations working to improve democracy in the U.S.
Global
Democracy Isn't Declining. The Nation-State Is
Local democracy increases—and offers an answer to the faltering nation-state
Pakistan
ADC: New Provincial Law Limits Rights, Press
Protection or Pressure?
USA
EVENT Civic Solitude: Why Democracy Needs Distance
Public discussion of the third book in philosopher Robert B. Talisse's democratic trilogy
Canada
VLAHOS: Three Ways to Strengthen Neighborhood Governance
Bottoms-up engagement, community intermediaries, and defeating geography are crucial, writes Nick Vlahos
Global
TRAINING EVENT Do It Yourself Democracy
Free webinars, in English, Spanish and German, Oct 8 and 22, in professional, organizational, and democratic...
Global
DEM NEXT: A First-Ever Tech-Assisted Assembly
Citizens assembly members get to work on youth homelessness in Deschutes County, Oregon
Myanmar
ADC: War Reaches Myanmar's Urban Communities
Civil War, once confined to rural areas, forces city dwellers to seek refuge.
USA
VLAHOS: Making Public Meetings More Deliberative
How to Bring Public Meetings Into the 21st Century
Global
For You and Europe, a New 'Idea Laboratory'
Half of the European Parliament's members are new. This is a moment for your ideas.