The International Democracy Community is dedicated to those active on issues of direct democracy, participation, and citizens' rights around the world. This year, we aim to make our platform more interactive and insightful through a webinar series that will be hosted on various interest topics that have been discussed on the community.
As part of our Spring Semester, we present, Direct democracy - simplified. It will be an introductory Programme to everything direct democracy related! The community will be hosting our first webinar series on direct democracy the basics and the challenges that it faces. Join us as we speak to direct democracy activists and experts with practical examples, opportunity for engagement and questions as well as exchange on best practices.
Programme
- 10 May 2023 - Democracy 101
- 24 May 2023 - Can Direct Democracy be used on a transnational level?
- 07 June 2023 - Why Direct Democracy doesn't work
Time: 17.00-18.30 CET
Online-Tool: Zoom
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The direct democracy simplified series is a series that was formed in order to have simple discussions about direct democracy that people that may not know much about it can follow, in order to be inclusive. Our first webinar was democracy 101, this went into the framework on direct democracy definitions and what tools were available at which level across the world. The second session was the question of whether direct democracy can be used at transnational level. Here we went into the definition of transnationality and what direct democracy tools were available at this level. Looking at ECIs at a European level and the global assembly initiative. Our last webinar looked at the reasons why direct democracy doesn’t work. We explored what conditions are favorable for direct democracy to thrive. We will then take Hungary and Taiwan as case studies. Here we explored how direct democracy tools can be misused.
