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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...

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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...

Direct Democracy and Human Rights as Partners

Parliaments and governments must listen closer to citizens and less to lobbyists of the military-industrial...

Voting Until You Get The Result You Want

The excessive use of top-down popular votes across Latin America has become a sign of democratic weakness. ...

Towards a National Youth Parliament

In Switzerland there are 66 youth parliaments at the local and cantonal level. Although in many cases they...

Global Outlook: Challenging Autumn Of Citizens Decisions

Four more months to go in 2016 and one billion citizens around the globe are about to make their voices heard...

California´s Coming Election Has More in Common With Brexit Than You Think

For a century, politicians in the most populated US state have relied on government-triggered initiatives and...

Democratic Idea Goes Around The World

Citizens' initiatives are a tool of modern direct democracy. Invented as an idea in the late 18th century,...

Brexit And The Case For More, Not Less, Direct Democracy

Direct democracy can be overwhelming and even dangerous, or so some people now believe after the vote for...

How To Cure A Democratic Hangover?

For #Regrexit-fans and other voters, who found themselves uninformed on a major decision, experiments in the...

Brexit-Vote Triggers Global Debate on Modern Direct Democracy

The decision by the British electorate to leave the European Union has created worldwide momentum for...

"A democratic emergency call"

People2power Editor-in-Chief Bruno Kaufmann says the outcome of the Brexit-vote is "a democratic emergency...