In late September, a dozen new students from Venezuela, some of the more than 15,000 asylum seekers bused to New York City by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, appeared at my child’s elementary school. At ...

The topic today is “Participatory Democracy”, which must be said from the onset is not a rhetorical concept — it either is or it isn’t. In simple terms, participatory democracy means the involvement ...

Digital platforms are nurturing a modern form of direct democracy that could reshape how European citizens engage with ...

The 15th Turkish Internet Conference themed "Mobile Life" brought up the subject of the medium's participation in democracy. The three-day event at the Istanbul Technical University is attended by ...

Democracy is in crisis. Many people are losing confidence in political parties and parliaments and their ability to solve pressing social problems in the long term. Recent studies by the University of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In 2016, the European Council of Spatial Planners - Conseil Européen des Urbanistes (ECTP-CEU) published a Charter on Participatory Democracy, ...

Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? For well over a decade, scholars and pundits have proclaimed that democracy ...

Under our system, the authority to govern comes directly from the people. The United States Constitution famously begins with the words, “We the People . . . ordain ...