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NEWS: Two Turkish Cities Are Finalists for 'European Capital of Democracy'

Ankara and Denizli Join Brussels and Tirana on Short List

NEWSLETTER: The Planetocracy Is Coming, So Wear Your White Hats

Also: Impact Investing Against Democracy; Sub-Saharan Local Covenant; Cat-Mayor-Martyr

Photo: Jeff Hitchcock (CC BY 2.0) https://creativecommons.org

European Citizens' Initiative: Collecting signatures under a lockdown

While timely and necessary, the measures to halt the spread of COVID-19 have had an enormous impact not only...

Do we have to worry about democracy?

The first shockwave is over. The personal contact ban in Germany has been in place for two weeks now and is...

Orbán's reach for unlimited power

On Monday 3o March, the Hungarian parliament approved sweeping emergency powers for the government, in its...

New in the Community: Ollin

In 'New in the Community' we introduce one of the members of our International Democracy Community in more...

The 2019 Grand Débat National in France: A Participatory Experiment with...

Everyone remembers the Yellow Vests movement. Few remember the Grand Débat National. Yet, together they make...

Unlikely allies: how the ever-divided French Left and Right triggered a...

In April last year, civil demands to stop the privatization of one of France’s public ‘’crown jewels’’, the...

Rafael Pineiro, board member of Democracy International, leaves a polling station in Kansas during the 2014 US midterm elections, with several ballot measures.

Long Life, Low Taxes and a Cleaner Environment: The Policy Effect of...

There has been no shortage of criticisms of direct democracy in general citizen-referendums in particular....

The European Pubic Sphere in Vienna

Behind citizen’s powerlessness: nostalgia, resentment and hope

With our eyes now turning towards Brussels and the upcoming launch of the Conference on the Future of Europe...

The ruins of the Panguna mine (Photo courtesy of Madlemurs (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/)

Papua New Guinea

Inching towards Independence: a bumpy road ahead for Bougainville

In last November’s referendum, with a turnout of 87,4 per cent, a staggering 97,7 per cent of Bougainvillean...

A world caught between protest and ballot

Never before have so many people around the globe taken part in popular votes as in 2019. Yet never before...