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Democracy Resilience Doesn't Exist; Your AI 'Civic Assistant': Write Us a Letter From World War 3

Also: Crypto in a Kenyan slum, intro of the Planetary Panchayat, West Sahara boomtown

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

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'Best Practice in Citizen Participation'

40 finalists for the International Observatory of Participatory Democracy awards.

ARCHIVE Why Local Food Vendors Belong in Prison Yards

An inmate writes about how food connects a town and its prison.

ADC: Voicing Out Through Local Votes

Despite suspicions of dirty tactics by central govenrment, Kashmir's voters went to the polls during...

MAP Healthy Democracy Ecosystem

The first comprehensive look at the organizations working to improve democracy in the U.S.

Democracy Isn't Declining. The Nation-State Is

Local democracy increases—and offers an answer to the faltering nation-state

ADC: New Provincial Law Limits Rights, Press

Protection or Pressure?

EVENT Civic Solitude: Why Democracy Needs Distance

Public discussion of the third book in philosopher Robert B. Talisse's democratic trilogy

VLAHOS: Three Ways to Strengthen Neighborhood Governance

Bottoms-up engagement, community intermediaries, and defeating geography are crucial, writes Nick Vlahos

TRAINING EVENT Do It Yourself Democracy

Free webinars, in English, Spanish and German, Oct 8 and 22, in professional, organizational, and democratic...

DEM NEXT: A First-Ever Tech-Assisted Assembly

Citizens assembly members get to work on youth homelessness in Deschutes County, Oregon