Stories - Sweden

'Local Democracy Is Freedom'

Assessing your own local democracy. 'Evil Does Not Exist' Outside Tokyo. A Caution from Bratislava. Bono for...

Stories from around the globe

So many people around the world are working daily to make their communities more democratic and to give...

Swedish model direct democracy

In Country in focus, Democracy International takes a closer look at advances in modern direct democracy and...

What The World Can Learn From Sweden´s Lane Change

What happens when the people want to go in one direction, and the government wants to go in another. A new...

Direct Democracy - A Global View From Stockholm

"Direct Democracy is here to stay", suggests former Belgium Prime Minister Yves Leterme, now Secretary...

Democratic Birthday: 250 Years With Freedom of Information

On December 2, 1766 Sweden was the first country worldwide to replace the principle of amnesia with the...

After the Super-Vote: Ireland, twelve points!

Hundreds of millions of citizens worldwide have been voting last weekend. While the ballot experiences as...