Democracy Local

COLUMN All Human Rights Are Local

As Nations Trample Rights, Cities Enshrine New Ones

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Everyday People Will Get Paid to Design Their Own City Council

Look for this Postcard in the Mail. Sortition Begins in Historic LA City Charter Assembly

PODCAST The Future of My Local Community and Yours

On California Sun podcast, my state's future is tied to the world's local future.

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SECOND IN SERIES: Participatory policymaking in Chipinge Rural District

Second excerpt from International IDEA's Stockholm Series on Climate Change and Democracy lecture by Greta...

COLUMN Indonesia's Interim Plot Against Local Democracy

Decentralisation made Indonesia democratic. Now the national government uses military and intelligence...

You and Me (and Local Democracy) Against the World

Also: Bogota and Mumbai advances, beyond-human experiments and a democracy capital switch.

The Hague Mayor Jan van Zenen attending a rainbow flag raising ceremony at the U.S Embassy The Hague.

COLUMN A Local Coalition to Tear the Fascists Down?

No province or city can beat the far-right alone.

ZÓCALO: Can We Move Climate-Challenged Cities?

Ancient Examples Show It’s Possible to Transplant Metropolises—But Costs Are Steep

READINGS Cairo Call for Action, on Local Housing

Local democracy has failed to produce sufficient housing everywhere. A Cairo gathering suggests ways forward

ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES: A Jirga for Justice

A Pashtun civil rights group holds a huge deliberative gathering to tackle community problems from land grabs...

LETTER A New Golden Age of Local Democracy?

The takeover of elections by the rich offers an opening.

Elon Musk Picked on the Wrong Local Agency

Voter-created commission to protect California's coast could be a planetary model.