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LOS ANGELLES
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
ANKARA
NEWS: Two Turkish Cities Are Finalists for 'European Capital of Democracy'
Ankara and Denizli Join Brussels and Tirana on Short List
Schools to promote good citizenship
An interview with the #ByThePeople-conference chair Daniel Schugurensky on what makes a participatory...
Netherlands
Netherlands first citizen-initiated popular vote
On April 6 next year the first citizen-initiated referendum vote in Dutch history will be held in the...
Switzerland
Switzerland is the gold standard for direct democracy
No country on earth is more democratic than Switzerland. So says the Uruguayan political scientist David...
European Union
Call For More Direct Democracy in Europe
The first tool of participatory democracy at the transnational level, the European Citizens’ Initiative, must...
How Museums Become Catalysts For Active Citizenship
The world is in the throes of a terrible refugee crisis, and we are in the middle of a national immigration...
Taiwan
Promising Taiwan – a direct democracy in the making?
THE TAIWANESE NEED TO DECIDE IF THEIR GOVERNMENT CAN FUNCTION AS BEAUTIFULLY AS THEIR CIVIL SOCIETY – AND IF...
Tunisia
A Nobel Peace Prize for Modern Direct Democracy
Here in Tunisia, we received the news of the Nobel Peace Prize with great joy and emotion, writes Lassaad El...
European Union
The Direct Democratic Struggle About Free Trade
How to reconcile people power with trade politics? This question is about to be answered by modern direct...
Global
From East Asia with Democracy
Seoul, the Capital of South Korea, is a very big city. But when it comes to people power, many small steps...
Australia
From the Magna Carta to the European Citizen´ Initiative
800 years ago, on June 15, King John of England signed the famous contract on power sharing and the rule of...