Stories

Citizens for Climate
Germany
Insights from two Citizens for Climate Participation Pop-Ups in Denmark and Belgium
  Climate change is a challenge that affects everyone, but not everyone gets the same opportunity to have a say in how we respond to it. Across Europe, new ways of involving people in climate decisions are emerging. Citizens'...
JAKARTA
ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES How to Retool for Resilient Democracy
Defending Democracy Needs More Savvy and Sacrifice From Civil Society
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
STRASBOURG
READINGS: The European Charter of Local Self-Government, 40 Years Later
The World's First Legally Binding International Treaty for Local Independence
VICENZA
READINGS Local Democracy Will Save Democracy
Antonella Valmorbida's 30 Years of Local Democracy Is a Guide to Past Work—and a Better Local Future
RENCA
LOCAL SNAPSHOT Mayor Claudio Castro
Water Recycling, and Financing, to Match Local Ambition in Chile
Image credit: 1824 painting of Anglo-Ashanti war. Public domain.
CANBERRA
READINGS The Honest Search for Democracy Is Endless
A Bigger, Science-Based Vision of Self-Government