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POEM The Technocrat and The Local Can Be Friends

Democracy Local's year-end poem is about the relationship at the heart of local governance

Jamaima Afridi for Asia Democracy Chronicles, courtesy Asia Democracy Chronicles. (Jamaima is also that story's author)

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A Top Two System and a Strange Governor's Race Create Peril

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The U.S. Is No Good at Being Nuts. Best to Leave That to the Golden State