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Local Measures Need a Counter
Two contradicatory ballot measures teach us better than one
Botswana
Radical Democrats in Desert
Diamonds and deliberation.
Photo credit: Budapest, by Jorge Fraganillo, via Flickr, CC BY 2.0 Deed
Global
Cities Carry Torch of Democracy
In Europe, progressive cities such as Budapest, Amsterdam, Helsinki and Lausanne work to counteract autocrats...
CC 4.0 license. Demonstration in Hong Kong north coast against pseudo-universal suffrage., 2015
Switzerland
Make Voting Rights Universal
Truly universal suffrage doesn't exist. Let's change that.
Switzerland
PODCAST: The evolution of women's political power in Switzerland
   
Global
That's a wrap - Looking back on the first Online Forum on Modern Direct Democracy
From 21-29 September of this year, the world's largest gathering of direct democracy activists and experts...
Switzerland
How the postponed referendum in Switzerland impacts citizens' initiatives
While timely and necessary, the measures to halt the spread of COVID-19 have had an enormous impact not only...
Global
What drives citizen participation?
For seven years, Dr Klaus Hofmann has been researching legal instruments of direct democracy worldwide for...
Switzerland
Swiss and US democracy: Twins Separated At Birth?
No other countries in the world have such strong direct democratic people´s rights as the United States and...
Global
Popular Votes On Strengthening Modern Direct Democracy In Ticino And Geneva
More than 100 million people across the world were called to the ballot stations on the last weekend of...
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