Stories - Participatory Democracy

Photo by Joe Mathews

New Year's Resolution: Give Up Elections to Focus on Democracy

2024's "Year of Elections" damaged democracy. Let's stop devoting so many resources to voting.

Photo credit: Car-free Sunday in central Jakarta, by Joe Mathews

Our First Year. Macondo Forever. Why We're All Batman.

How to Donate. Korea impeachment songs. Small-town mayor-president?

COLUMN Stop the Democracy In-Fighting

We need democracy ecosystems, not democracy waves.

Mayor Park Won-soon in 2014

After the Mayor's Death

After suicide and scandal, Korean local democracy finds new life.

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.

"More democracy is possible"

Over the past months, our partner organisation Mehr Demokratie has organised citizens' councils on the...

Making Direct Democracy Truly Democratic

When students take three days off work and class to head to the bright sunshine of the California coast, you...

Schools to promote good citizenship

An interview with the #ByThePeople-conference chair Daniel Schugurensky on what makes a participatory...

The ugly Beast and its unlikely Beauty

Democracy in America has seen better days ever since French political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville first...