Democracy Local

COLUMN The Mayor From Jaws Can Save Our City

Larry Vaughn Is Perfect for a City Determined to Ignore Serious Threats

ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES Across Asia, Youth Demand for Reform

Asia Democracy Network's 2026 Democracy Overview Tackles, Youth and Power Across Asia

VLAHOS: Three Ways to Strengthen Neighborhood Governance

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

DEM NEXT: A First-Ever Tech-Assisted Assembly

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

TRAINING EVENT Do It Yourself Democracy

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

For You and Europe, a New 'Idea Laboratory'

Half of the European Parliament's members are new. This is a moment for your ideas.

ADC: Firing the Messenger

The Wall Street Journal fires a Hong Kong journalist who headed an association of reporters, setting a...

COLUMN: No Camping

Divided localities agree on an enemy: those camping outside.

A Deliberate Provocation; An Experiment in India

Also: an amalgamation assembly and "anticipatory" democracy

ADC: War Reaches Myanmar's Urban Communities

Civil War, once confined to rural areas, forces city dwellers to seek refuge.

VLAHOS: Making Public Meetings More Deliberative

How to Bring Public Meetings Into the 21st Century

SPEECH 'Come With Us If You Want to Live'

Why the deliberative democracy movement needs to get more aggressive