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Hungary election
Hungary
The opposition understood the assignment.
The Hungarian 3-step plan to beat an authoritarian.  Autocrats around the world will study Orbán’s successes: how to consolidate power over time, how to reward loyalists, how to weaken watchdogs, and how to loot the state while...
Delegates to the Los Angeles Charter Civic Assembly, March 8, 2026 (Photo by Joe Mathews)
LOS ANGELES
OPEN LETTER Residents Call on City Council: Let the People Govern!
A Demand to Respect Charter Reforms From Commission and Sortition-Selected Assembly
Image by Asia Democracy Chronciles
SIKKIM STATE
ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES Guardians of the Rangelands
Once Displaced, Pastoralists Are Now Proud Custodians of Kanchenjunga in India's Northeast  
SAN MATEO
COLUMN The Name Is Bond. Democracy Bond
If We're Serious About Building Democracy, We Must Borrow
NAIROBI
PEOPLE POWERED A Local Climate Policy Was Stuck...
...Then Citizens Got Involved
LOS ANGELES
COLUMN California's #2 Job Is Too Dangerous For Me
Lieutenant Governorship Grows Perilous in These Times
(Map from International IDEA)
PRISTINA
READINGS The World's Invisible Electorate
Out-of-Country Voting Tests Democracy in Local Communities
TANGIER
MEET DEMOCRACY LOCAL IN TANGIER!
At the 2026 World Congress of United Cities and Local Governments
ASUNCIÓN
READINGS Municipal Youth Policies, and Their Lessons
Looking at Local Youth Participation in Buenos Aires and Asunción
RENCA
LOCAL SNAPSHOT Mayor Claudio Castro
Water Recycling, and Financing, to Match Local Ambition in Chile
LOS ANGELES
COLUMN The Mayor From Jaws Can Save Our City
Larry Vaughn Is Perfect for a City Determined to Ignore Serious Threats