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
HK's District Elections Are New Target
More rules on district elections undermine democracy
USA
Go to Bed, My City Council
Late-night decisions backfire
Brazil
Reviving Brazil's Local Budgeting
Letter from Brazil, on the  Birth, Decline, and  Resurgence of Participatory Budgeting
A Peace Wall in Belfast, courtesy of photographer Stephen Wilson.
United Kingdom
What Belfast and L.A. Have in Common
Democracy in divided cities requires remembering and forgetting.
The first gathering of the People's Assembly in Athens, Sept. 27 (photo by Joe Mathews)
Greece
The Next Democracy, On Athens Hill
Democracy was first built on a lot of loose rock.
I Went Back In Time to City Future
... a City's Democratic Future. I was more than a little startled when Konrad Adenauer approached me in the...
PHOTO CREDIT: A celebration outside the Louvre after Macron’s election victory in 2017. SOURCE: Photo by Lorie Shaull, via Flicker https://www.flickr.com/photos/number7cloud/34527195605 and Creative Commons license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/
France: Too Central For Democracy?
Might this month’s French elections be the prelude to another French Revolution?
Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, at World Economic Forum in Switzerland in 2009. Photo by Remy Steinegger, for World Economic Forum, via Flicker https://www.flickr.com/photos/worldeconomicforum/3488093359 and Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/
Planetary
Stop the Next Putin at Home
Want to join the global fight against authoritarianism? Then participate in your community’s local government...
USA
Save The World With Local Democracy
... Local Democracy.... September 15 is the International Day of Democracy, which brings together the sort of...