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 ...

Yet, the internet can play a role in transforming the representative democracy into a participatory democracy". He stressed the fact that deficiencies in the infrastructure, in the administrative ...

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 ...

Heidi Brooks received funding from the Leverhulme Trust for the doctoral research on which this article is based. A common claim of the governing African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa is its ...

This guest column was written on behalf of the Black Nashville Assembly by Theeda Murphy of No Exceptions Prison Collective, Jamel Campbell-Gooch of Gideon's Army and Erica Perry of SONG Nashville.

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, ...

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 and establish this Constitution.” ...