Stories

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...
Member Spotlight
Empowering Youth and Women for Elective Political Power in Nigeria
Following their earlier story, Children and Young People Living for Peace (CYPLP) returns with a second event contribution to the International Democracy Community. This September initiative marked International Democracy Day...
France
COLUMN Stop the Democracy In-Fighting
We need democracy ecosystems, not democracy waves.
USA
COLUMN A Hole in the Capital Ground
An office building for state will take local parkland and cost $1.2 billion
Global
Local Democracy Is Rebellion
it grows strong in hard ground
USA
This Small Farm Town Puts Kids First
The Gonzales Way of Democracy
Ukraine
COLUMN How Ukraine's Cities Led in Democracy
Before the war, award-winning localities.
USA
EL PAÍS: On Kamala & California
California is too exceptional to explain the vice president.
USA
COLUMN: Will City Hall Save Us From the Body Snatchers?
Local government vs the planetary threat
Image of people participating in a conversation
South Africa
Reviving the Promises of the Freedom Charter: Participatory Democracy for...
The Freedom Charter, adopted by activist groups in 1955 during the early years of the apartheid regime,...
Germany
PODCAST: Germany's MMP Electoral System and Its Reform with Armin...
Global
Democracy Local: An Introduction
Welcome to a new planetary publication, about local democracy, and of, by and for everyday people governing...