Democracy Local

NEW YORK CITY
MEMO We Govern the Way We Campaigned: Together
The Question of Your Transition, Mr. Mayor-Elect, Is How to Institutionalize the Democratic Energy That Brought You Here
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
Mexico
Mexico City Is My Real Capital
In California, we're closer to CDMX than DC. And not just geographically.
How Culture Frustrates Democracy
Our patriarchy and economic obsessions have slowed democracy—and inspired backlash.
This file was produced by Ayuntamiento of Madrid, the City Council of Madrid, and provided through Diario de Madrid. Diario de Madrid website. Creative Commons CC BY 4.0.
Global
Make Your Council Bigger
Better cities have bigger city parliaments.
Photo courtesy of Houses of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Gender Equality Publishes Final Report press release, December 2022. Creative Commons License 2.0. Via Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/oireachtas/
Global
The Meaning of Irish Defeat
A Roundup from Barcelona to Nelson Mandela Bay
CC 4.0 license. Demonstration in Hong Kong north coast against pseudo-universal suffrage., 2015
Switzerland
Make Voting Rights Universal
Truly universal suffrage doesn't exist. Let's change that.
Photo Credit Photographer: Florent MECHAIN/TravelMag.com travelmag.com, via Flickr, Creative Commons 2.0.
Bangladesh
Waiting in Pain
In Bangladesh's Chittagong Hill Tracts, Indigenous people tell Asia Democracy Chronicles that they are at...
Lead photo by Anders Henrikson, 2014 (Creative Commons license)
Global
Please Don't Save Democracy
It's not a penalty shot. Or a dollar in the bank.
Illustration Courtesy Asia Democracy Chronicles
The Hong Kong Diaspora's Power
How Hong Kongers continue to fight for democracy from abroad.
Seoul of Seoul photo by Bruno Kaufmann
Global
March to Democracy Events
A busy March for democracy.
Korea South
시장의 죽음 이후
자살과 스캔들 이후 한국의 지방 민주주의는 새로운 삶을 찾았습니다