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MOSI
COLUMN The Local Assembly Beautiful Enough to Run a Nation
The Kgotla Mixes Democracy, Culture, and Technocracy to Govern Botswana
Germany
The People’s Candidate
The United Nations is choosing its next Secretary-General at perhaps the most precarious moment in its history. The process tells us something uncomfortable about the institution the successful candidate will inherit: the UN has...
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...