Local governments often engage in performative democracy, offering residents access to decision-making without granting them ...

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 ...

Zohran Mamdani’s election to Mayor of New York has been a badly-needed boost to the confidence of the left in the U.S. and ...

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, ...

November’s ballot could give Oklahomans one of the broadest opportunities in participatory democracy in a long time. Legislative referendums, proposed constitutional amendments and initiative ...

Like many, my heart sank as I heard news of protesters being shot in Kathmandu. Just a week prior, I had been there discussing approaches to urban peacebuilding. The signs of unrest were already ...

There is a saying, popular in anarchist circles, that “elections are the means by which we choose the sauce with which we will be basted.” For anarchists there is a deep problem with claims of ...