Democracy Local

COLUMN All Human Rights Are Local

As Nations Trample Rights, Cities Enshrine New Ones

Image credit: Rewrite LA

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

NATIONAL CIVIC LEAGUE: Local Governments and Community Foundation

Potential Partners? And a Meeting on Sept. 30 in Chicago.

NATIONAL CIVIC REVIEW: Reimaginging the Local Public Meeting

A Case Study of Strengthening Local Democracy in a Colorado City

ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES: Not Our Trash

East Java Villages Struggle to Manage World's Plastic Waste

COLUMN: FIGHTING 'FIRE WITH FIRE' AND ALL-CAPS

Does being tyrannical really topple a tyrant?

ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES: Weaponizing Bureaucracy to Stifle Dissent

Hong Kong Uses Tax Audits, Licensing, Inspections

NATIONAL CIVIC REVIEW: A City Charter Commission Brings In the People

Georgia City Charter Effort Employs Democratic Innovation

LOCAL SNAPSHOTS: Mayor Joe Stapleton

A Long, Gnarly Paddle for a Fallen Lifeguard—And Local Community

KUNIGAMI, OKINAWA

COLUMN: A Planetary Game of Local Warnings

6,500 Miles Away From Home, a Possible Tsunami Taught Local Lessons

NEWSLETTER: Local Is Not a Level; Growing Grätzloasen; Democracy Camping

Also: Pati's Revolt, Viennese Parks, Taiwanese AI

Digital Democracy and e-Governance

Digitalisation Can Divide Us or Empower Democracy — We Decide

Town halls are moving online, we are able to sign petitions from the comfort of our own homes, and collective...