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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
At "Constitution Cafés", We, the People, Try to Form a More...
Are Americans finally ready to un-rig their Constitutional system? The answer is yes, suggests Christopher...
European Union
Direct Democracy Instead of Civil War
A conflict full of explosives: religion, language and a social divide. Yet, for once, bloodshed could be...
Global
Democratic Shake Up: The Return Of Engaged Citizens
Since the premature announcement of 'the end of history' after the collapse of the Soviet Union, democratic...
Switzerland
‘The ECI needs to become stronger’
The New European Movement of Switzerland is one of the few organisations defying the current political trend...
Switzerland
Towards Universal Participatory Budgeting
"Participatory budgeting" where everyone can have a say on how public money is used - has become all the rage...
Making Direct Democracy Truly Democratic
When students take three days off work and class to head to the bright sunshine of the California coast, you...
With The President Out of The Country, Oregonians To Reinvent Democracy
Modern Direct Democracy by Initiative and Referendum in the United States was first known as the "Oregon...
Hungary
‘We need to awake from apathy and powerlessness"
In Country in focus, Democracy International takes a closer look at advances in direct democracy and citizen...
France
Monsieur Macrons Sense of Direct Democracy
Two-thirds of French voters chose Emmanuel Macron over Marine Le Pen in Sunday’s presidential elections,...
Re-thinking US Democracy In The Trump Era
Donald Trump´s term as US president, now 100 days old, could re-ignite a long-standing debate about the...