• PPF's 2017 report The Shattered Mirror: News, Democracy and Trust in the Digital Age documented how a huge revenue loss was sinking Canadian journalism and the impact this was having on Canadian democracy. (ppforum.ca)
  • I've previously been affiliated with the Department of Sociology at New York University, the Center for Social Movement Studies in Florence, the Institute for Urban Research at Malmö University, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies in Lund, and I've been a "Visiting Democracy Fellow" at Harvard Kennedy School 2017-2019. (lu.se)
  • Benjamin Goldfrank has been studying the development of participatory democracy in Latin America for many years, and this book represents the culmination of his empirical investigations in Brazil, Uruguay, and Venezuela. (psupress.org)
  • In order to understand why participatory democracy has succeeded better in some countries than in others, he examines the efforts in urban areas that have been undertaken in the cities of Porto Alegre, Montevideo, and Caracas. (psupress.org)
  • Goldfrank rightly recognizes the impressive works on participatory democracy in these cases individually, as well as comparative subnational work. (psupress.org)
  • An incisive and thorough analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of experiences of participatory democracy in contemporary Latin America. (psupress.org)
  • Goldfrank shows how participatory democracy's biggest challenges, including social inequality, bureaucratic inefficiency, and political rivalry, can be surmounted. (psupress.org)
  • I have recently published a book on urban participatory democracy projects and co-edited a volume on everyone's right to housing . (lu.se)
  • Without local journalism, citizens become less informed, and corruption becomes more likely, leading to a decline in voter turnout and erosion of democratic institutions. (project-syndicate.org)
  • With no elections scheduled until 2024, Georgia's government has the opportunity to focus on reforms that will improve life for the country's citizens, including at the local level. (civil.ge)
  • Steps to empower local governments - and local citizens - create conditions for a more participatory, citizen-centered democracy and allow government officials to earn the trust of the people they serve. (civil.ge)
  • Most citizens interact with state institutions such as schools, law enforcement and the judiciary, healthcare services, and public infrastructure at the local level. (civil.ge)
  • The Decentralization Strategy puts significant emphasis on ensuring that local governments have the financial resources they need to deliver for their citizens. (civil.ge)
  • At stake is the information that all citizens need to participate in democracy. (aspenideas.org)
  • Citizens across the country may well turn the 2016 election into a watershed moment for democracy. (smallplanet.org)
  • Using ballot initiatives to skirt dysfunctional national and state legislatures, these reforms would enhance the voices of ordinary Americans and send a loud message to national politicians to stand up with citizens for democracy. (smallplanet.org)
  • The stand will mostly present the last activities of ALDA on local governance and citizens participation as well as the activities of the Local Democracy Agencies from Mostar, Prijedor and Zavidovici. (alda-europe.eu)
  • The Institute of Democracy conducts research about democratic development and political communication between citizens, media and parties. (lu.se)
  • Funding for this thesis is from the Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD) Fieldwork Grant and the Right Livelihood College (RLC) Fieldwork Grant. (lu.se)
  • The Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Swedish International Center for Local Democracy (ICLD). (lu.se)
  • PENANG, Malaysia, Sep 27 2012 (IPS) - A unique electoral exercise in Penang state, promoting participatory and gender-responsive decision-making at the grassroots level, may serve as a cue for the revival of local elections in Malaysia. (ipsnews.net)
  • The federal government had suspended local council elections in 1960 (councillors are now mainly political appointees) making citizen involvement in the decision-making process difficult. (ipsnews.net)
  • Penang, ruled as it is by (national) opposition parties, is lobbying hard for the reinstatement of local elections to promote the vibrant local democracy that the state was once known for. (ipsnews.net)
  • ABSTRACT: In five of Australia's six States, legislation governing the franchise at local government elections allows for voting rights based partly on property ownership or occupation, for votes for corporations, and for various forms of plural voting. (ssrn.com)
  • While this article's primary goal is to critique the legislation as it stands, Part III concisely makes the case for reform of voting rights at local government elections, suggesting that the status quo raises concerns about democratic inequality. (ssrn.com)
  • MARTIN: So we typically wouldn't focus on district elections in Hong Kong because, as I understand it, these councils focus on hyper-local issues like bus stops and noise. (nhpr.org)
  • And if you care about democracy, and you care about the survival of our republic, then you need to understand, we all have to understand, that we cannot give people power who have told us that they will not honor elections. (localnews8.com)
  • Last year's local elections were held under difficult circumstances, most notably the COVID-19 pandemic and a tense environment before and during election day. (civil.ge)
  • significantly higher than in the previous local elections. (civil.ge)
  • This conservative state, which has voted Republican in 18 out of the last 19 presidential elections, might move into the vanguard of the democracy movement this November. (smallplanet.org)
  • It includes various web and print resources in presidential, federal, state, local and world elections. (lu.se)
  • At the start of 2018, PPF, with the support of our six partners, decided to dive deeper into the state of local and community news media. (ppforum.ca)
  • The League of Women Voters of Washington believes it is the responsibility of the government to provide support for conditions under which credible local journalism can survive and thrive. (lwvwa.org)
  • Fortunately, there has been a resurgence of innovative business models aimed at sustaining local journalism in the digital age. (project-syndicate.org)
  • The digital age has shattered newspapers' business model, turning many communities into " news deserts " with no local journalism. (project-syndicate.org)
  • The decline of local journalism is driven by many factors, but economic challenges top the list. (project-syndicate.org)
  • In this session, meet two local journalism leaders who are reinventing local news. (aspenideas.org)
  • The League supports credible and ethical local journalism, in whatever format it is published, as essential to our democracy. (lwvwa.org)
  • A report from Northwestern University's Medill School puts it bluntly: The loss of local journalism that we're seeing in the United States is "a crisis for our democracy and our society. (northdallasgazette.com)
  • The polling process carried out at the flats is also part of a gender-responsive budgeting (GRB) project initiated by the PWDC in collaboration with the two local councils, the MPPP, and its counterpart on mainland Penang, the MPSP. (ipsnews.net)
  • Under a three-year pilot project, the local councils are adopting GRB to take into account the needs of all the people, including women, children and people with disabilities when formulating budget priorities. (ipsnews.net)
  • Western Australia Premier Colin Barnett and Local Government Minister Tony Simpson unveiled the state's worst-kept secret on July 30, when they announced their plan to slash the number of councils in Perth from 30 to 14. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Lana is being honored for the impact of her leadership venture Youth Local Councils (YLC), a program that engages over 25,000 youth in the West Bank and has expanded to Honduras and Ukraine. (aspeninstitute.org)
  • Through voluntary bodies of elected youth, the Youth Local Councils enable young people to practice leadership and good governance, receive hundreds of hours of training, and propose, plan, and execute community projects. (aspeninstitute.org)
  • Youth Local Councils are exporting a model of civic engagement and democracy that is critically needed around the world," said former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, chair of the McNulty Prize jury. (aspeninstitute.org)
  • When there is more than one local union that has members with the same employer we coordinate bargaining through Unity Councils. (labornotes.org)
  • There is a nice interview on Radio 4 and an excellent article by John Harris in the Guardian where Peter and others who have taken over their local councils make a strong case for a new form of thriving local democracy. (eco-logicbooks.com)
  • To help advance the local governance reforms that Georgia still needs, USAID is working closely with the Ministry of Regional Development and Infrastructure, the Ministry of Finance, and municipal governments around the country. (civil.ge)
  • The political transformation to a parliamentary democracy will bring about fundamental changes to the system of governance along with far reaching impacts on social, economic and political dynamics. (who.int)
  • While the themes are universal for all of the local and regional communities, each community can interpret the theme is a manner that is more relevant to their specific needs. (wikipedia.org)
  • According to Pew Research, the number of local newsroom employees in the US fell by 57% between 2008 and 2020, resulting in thousands of " ghost newspapers " that barely cover their own communities. (project-syndicate.org)
  • More specifically, we aim to answer the question: Is there less volume and depth of coverage of local communities now than there was 10 years ago? (ppforum.ca)
  • Have your say on local communities deciding their own future. (gov.scot)
  • Research shows that when local newspapers disappear or are dramatically gutted, communities tend to see lower voter turnout, increased polarization, a general erosion of civic engagement and an environment in which misinformation and conspiracy theories can spread more easily. (wqln.org)
  • The question is, will local communities decide that this is an important issue, that it's worth saving these newspapers, protecting them from firms like Alden, or will they decide that they don't really care? (wqln.org)
  • From workplace fairness to racial justice, local communities are leading the way when it comes to protecting the health, welfare, and safety of their residents. (abetterbalance.org)
  • We believe that local communities know what's best for them, and are working on the front lines with advocates and elected officials across the country, using the power of the law to defend progressive local policies against preemption. (abetterbalance.org)
  • As the level of government closest to the people, local governments are uniquely situated to enact policies that reflect the views and values of their communities. (abetterbalance.org)
  • of voters believe that local communities should be able to improve upon state law. (abetterbalance.org)
  • They will map key problems related to the environment and its link to peacebuilding in their local communities and create sustainable partnerships that aim to answer these challenges with the support of the Erasmus+ programme. (salto-youth.net)
  • As our faith in our political system and politicians continues to plummet and climate change escalates, an alternative that empowers local people to rescue their own communities is vital. (eco-logicbooks.com)
  • Because they are smaller in size, local governments are more capable of being responsive to the needs of their respective communities because they are more in touch with their constituents. (marquette.edu)
  • Kahan and Meares are careful to note that their position is premised on the capacity of minority communities - which are the communities most directly affected by crime and policing - to participate effectively in local-level policymaking. (marquette.edu)
  • Their concerns regarding the political power (or lack thereof) of affected communities might give one pause regarding recent anti-immigrant initiatives at the local level (which I do not see Matt to be embracing as a model). (marquette.edu)
  • Local news reporting plays a pivotal role in the health of our communities-and our democracy. (lwvwa.org)
  • As our recent study " The Decline of Local News and Its Impact on Democracy " found, local newspapers play a crucial role in supporting healthy communities and healthy democracies. (lwvwa.org)
  • On Sunday 28 April between 12.45pm and 1:45pm ERS Scotland will be partnering with the Our Democracy and Common Weal to host Local Democracy: How can we get Real Power to Communities - a conversation on radical ways to organise Scotland's Local Government. (electoral-reform.org.uk)
  • More than one in five Americans now live in what scholars refer to as news deserts, communities that lack or are at risk of losing local news sources. (northdallasgazette.com)
  • Rural communities and small towns are increasingly left without local news. (northdallasgazette.com)
  • The state preemption of local minimum wages disenfranchises workers and exacerbates racial inequality when it disproportionately impacts communities of color who are overrepresented among low-wage workers [1] and who often represent majorities in our cities and large metro areas. (nelp.org)
  • The purpose of Temple Har Shalom's Scholar-in-Residence program is to find new ways the local Jewish community can interact positively with the larger Utah communities, Levinsky said. (parkrecord.com)
  • Much of this marketing occurs in nationwide media (eg, television, the Internet), but companies also directly target children in their own communities through the use of billboards and through local environments such as stores, restaurants, and schools. (cdc.gov)
  • In this article, we describe ways in which food companies market calorie-dense, nutrient-poor foods directly to children in national media and local communities. (cdc.gov)
  • The films tell us as much about the filmmakers' own wishes and reasons for wanting to retrieve memory as it does about the local communities' memory-making practices. (lu.se)
  • The "European Local Democracy Week" is an annual event with national and local events organised by participating local authorities in all Council of Europe member States. (wikipedia.org)
  • In recognition of the fiftieth anniversary of the creation of the Conference of Local and Regional Authorities (the predecessor to today's Congress of Local and Regional Authorities, the first European Local Democracy Week took place in 2007. (wikipedia.org)
  • In a resolution adopted today by the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the Council of Europe, the Kingdom of Morocco was granted the status of " Partner for local democracy " with this assembly of local and regional elected representatives from the Organisation's 47 member states. (coe.int)
  • A lot of cities almost operate with the assumption that there will be at least one local newspaper, in some cases several local newspapers, acting as a check on the authorities," he says. (wqln.org)
  • The BNLD's mission is to promote local democracy and regional cooperation in the perspective of EU integration of the Western Balkans through the empowerment of civil society and local authorities. (alda-europe.eu)
  • This report from the field analyzes the extent to which local authorities in England and Wales have responded to the e-democracy agenda by examining their Web sites and assessing their potential to deliver democracy. (irma-international.org)
  • The research demonstrated that the potential of the Internet for enhancing democracy is not fully exploited by local authorities and there remain considerable variations between different authorities. (irma-international.org)
  • NEXPO 2011" is organised by NALAS, network of associations of local authorities of South East Europe, and more than 1,000 people will be participating, representatives from local municipalities, associations and international organisations. (alda-europe.eu)
  • The local authorities will transport participants from the airport to their hotels. (who.int)
  • The purpose is to foster the knowledge of local democracy and promote the idea of democratic participation at a local level. (wikipedia.org)
  • What other mechanisms would help achieve high levels of community participation in local decision-making processes? (gov.scot)
  • The activity will serve as a platform for networking and getting to know other European organisations working in the area of youth participation in decision-making processes at the local level to develop projects that can promote and enhance the participation of young people in designing local policies in general and environmental policies in particular. (salto-youth.net)
  • We will analyse the state of democracy in modern societies to help participants better understand the challenges and opportunities faced by European democracies and find ways to foster quality youth participation in decision-making processes at the local level. (salto-youth.net)
  • The Partnership Building Activity will be based on the non-formal education methodology, which includes sharing practices, mutual dialogue, exploring engagement theories, and planning concrete steps by building partnerships for future projects to implement the practices in the local environment to foster youth participation in decision-making processes with a particular focus on environmental policies. (salto-youth.net)
  • Benjamin Goldfrank's proposal to compare various leftist-sponsored experiments in collective participation in local decision-making represents a valuable contribution. (psupress.org)
  • The next 10th and 11th of March will take place in Sarajevo " NEXPO 2011 " , the first Local Government Fair including participants from South Eastern Europe. (alda-europe.eu)
  • But so far, there have been some remarkable upsets and victories among first-time pro-democracy candidates over their much more established, more pro-Beijing candidates. (nhpr.org)
  • PHOENIX (AP) - Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney on Wednesday said the Republican candidates for Arizona governor and secretary of state pose a huge risk for democracy because both say they will refuse to certify election results if they don't like the results. (localnews8.com)
  • You're tired of hearing the bad news about local news and its deleterious effects on civic engagement and democracy: The layoffs, the cutbacks, the mergers and potential mergers of large newspaper chains. (medium.com)
  • The next leader is supposed to be chosen in 2022, and so a pro-democracy majority in the district council could tip that selection. (nhpr.org)
  • AP) Former Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes says democracies are weakening across the globe as authoritarian movements are on the rise. (sltrib.com)
  • As the energy system shifts away from the outdated utility monopoly model, the four Ds of energy democracy - distributed power, decentralization, democracy from ownership, and disruptive technology - have the potential to put those users in charge and allow them to reap the economic benefits. (ilsr.org)
  • Specifically, we are helping Georgia implement its Decentralization Strategy for 2020-2025 , which includes a range of steps to empower local governments and, ultimately, the people who vote them into office. (civil.ge)
  • Before leftist parties began electing presidents in Latin America at the turn of the century, they were electing mayors and experimenting with participatory forms of democracy at the municipal level. (psupress.org)
  • The Program is a research network of scholars interested in studies of electoral democracy, representative democracy, opinion formation, and voting behavior. (lu.se)
  • The Capitol insurrection - and the egregious attempts by one party first to blow up the peaceful transfer of power, the bedrock of our democracy, and then to make several attempts to ensure no election would ever again deny them power - has sweeping implications for the future. (localnews8.com)
  • But many state legislatures-often in response to corporate lobbyists and special interest groups-are increasingly turning to preemption to overturn and prevent local laws that would guarantee paid leave, ensure residents earn a living wage, protect the local environment, prevent discrimination, and more. (abetterbalance.org)
  • Our partners at the Local Solutions Support Center have developed messaging toolkits to help advocates learn about and talk about preemption. (abetterbalance.org)
  • We are working closely with the Local Solutions Support Center and other national and local partners to provide technical assistance to cities and advocates in their fight against preemption. (abetterbalance.org)
  • Two ABB staff-members contributed articles to a new journal, the Local Power and Politics Review , that gathers recent research findings, identifies emerging issues, and identifies data and research needs across various issue areas affected by preemption. (abetterbalance.org)
  • In light of these considerations, Matt argues against the tendency of some courts to squelch local initiatives through narrow constructions of home rule powers and liberal invocations of the implied preemption doctrine. (marquette.edu)
  • In response to this explosion in local minimum wage activity, a number of states-particularly those with conservative legislatures-have sought to shut down these gains by adopting "preemption" laws that prohibit cities and counties from adopting local minimum wages, as well as a wide range of other pro-worker policies. (nelp.org)
  • Below we summarize our main findings, showing how preemption of local wages has become a powerful anti-worker and anti-democratic policy. (nelp.org)
  • In 12 cities and counties that adopted local wage laws only to be preempted by their state legislatures, nearly 346,000 workers have been impacted by preemption. (nelp.org)
  • As the long-term consequences of preemption become clear to advocates and lawmakers around the country, and as they also understand how corporate interests have pushed the proliferation of preemption laws in recent years to protect their bottom line, the pendulum is now swinging back towards the restoration of local democracy. (nelp.org)
  • Each year has had a unique and relevant theme for each community to work with which are very important on the local level with past themes including the issue of Sustainability on the local level. (wikipedia.org)
  • The theme for the European Local Democracy Week in 2011 was human rights at the local level. (wikipedia.org)
  • Governing effectively at the local level is all the more urgent as vigorous local civic engagement builds the foundation for a strong and more enduring national-level democracy. (iknowpolitics.org)
  • Put simply, this means collecting more revenue at the local level and giving local governments more authority to make decisions on spending. (civil.ge)
  • Progressive Policy-Making on the Local Level: Rethinking Traditional Notions of Federalism , 17 Temp. (marquette.edu)
  • Citing recent immigration initiatives and living wage ordinances (including one in Madison, Wisconsin), Matt notes a long history of local-level policy innovation in this country. (marquette.edu)
  • Matt's article also reminds me of the argument of Dan Kahan and Tracey Meares (which I blogged about here ) that federal constitutional limitations should be relaxed so as to permit more creative responses to crime at the local level. (marquette.edu)
  • Failing to stop the adoption of local pro-worker laws, the corporate lobby has persuaded state-level lawmakers to revoke the underlying local authority to adopt such policies, in some cases rolling back wage increases that were already enacted by city and county governments. (nelp.org)
  • The relatively stable nature of this income allows local governments to undertake long-term budget planning for public projects. (civil.ge)
  • Even more importantly, local governments now have an incentive to collect their own revenues, meaning that decisions about public funding are made in closer proximity to the people who are affected, and projects are funded in part with money raised directly from local residents. (civil.ge)
  • Local governments, like cities and counties, have long implemented local policies-including higher minimum wages-to improve economic conditions. (nelp.org)
  • Special attention is devoted to the examination of concrete efforts by international stakeholders including governments, international state and non-governmental organisations and their work with local partners. (lu.se)
  • The election "will decide the future of Poland as a country of liberal democracy, a system that has been a guarantor of Polish success for the last three decades," the editor of the Rzeczpospolita newspaper, Boguslaw Chrabota, wrote in a Friday editorial. (centralillinoisproud.com)
  • Several factors prompted the League's study, "The Decline of Local News and Its Impact on Democracy," and the subsequent adoption of our public policy position. (lwvwa.org)
  • The Decline of Local News and Its Impact on Democracy" is available for download as a free PDF  . (lwvwa.org)
  • For the first time, municipalities in Morocco and Tunisia also registered as ELDW partners, in order to strengthen local democracy. (wikipedia.org)
  • Judgement and approach · reflect on the effectiveness of the promotion of democracy and human rights, · reflect on the future for democracy and the promotion of human rights, · suggest alternative ways to strengthen the development of democracy and human rights abroad. (lu.se)
  • Values concerning rights, democracy, and equality are all subverted and targeted by jihadi political messaging, working to the detriment of local and international development efforts under Agenda 2030. (lu.se)
  • Inequalities of class may be more entrenched in the old democracies of the West because they have become invisible under the surface of democracy and formal equality, while struggles for citizenship make entrenched inequalities objects of discourse and politics in the global South. (lu.se)
  • We rely on readers like you to support the local, national, and international coverage on this website. (nhpr.org)
  • ABB is helping to lead an innovative, cross-movement national project dedicated to strengthening, protecting, and defending progressive local laws. (abetterbalance.org)
  • This stems from low confidence in Georgia's elected officials, both at the national and local levels. (civil.ge)
  • As the EU's assembly of local and regional representatives, the European Committee of the Regions is a political institution whose work involves maintaining close relations with senior representatives at European, national, regional and local levels. (europa.eu)
  • However, each social structure is unique in its local and national characteristics. (lu.se)
  • The results show that the role of local wisdom "Dalian Natolu" in the democratic process in the Mandailing community plays a role in filling empty spaces in democratic development such as reducing the occurrence of conflicts as a result of political contestation, this can be seen in the changes in the distribution of economic resources and achieving the goal of democracy, namely the welfare of the people. (atlantis-press.com)
  • Second, it highlights the types of democratic structure being supported and the values being emphasized in the implementation of e-democracy. (irma-international.org)
  • Its programmes aim to provide knowledge to democracy builders, policy development and analysis and support democratic reform. (lu.se)
  • The center sponsors research and education aimed at improving the democratic process in the United States and expanding democracy around the world. (lu.se)
  • In the first phase of Democracy Matters, people told us that decision-makers must involve the community and be accountable to them for the difference made with the total resource available. (gov.scot)
  • Place-specificity matters but avoid the local trap! (lu.se)
  • It's still too early to say whether the various pro-democracy parties here have a majority among the 452 district councilor seats that were up for election. (nhpr.org)
  • For the first time, a group trying to unravel democracy has its own media megaphone to blast out propagandistic disinformation about the 2020 election, falsely claiming that it was stolen, despite an utter lack of evidence. (localnews8.com)
  • Democracy Forum 11/18/22: Election Reflections: What Just Happened Here? (weru.org)
  • This leads, in theory, to more responsive and representative policy-making as local government officials make decisions informed by the community's wants and needs. (marquette.edu)
  • And yet, in lists of the biggest news stories of 2021 that media organizations are composing, while Covid is huge, the ongoing challenge to American democracy is a constant. (localnews8.com)
  • According to a July 2021 poll from the same organization, only 17% of Tbilisi residents gave their local sakrebulo a positive assessment. (civil.ge)
  • It is the influence of globalization that has an impact on local wisdom where each generation experiences a decrease in the value and understanding of its own regional culture. (atlantis-press.com)
  • A debate forum for issues concerning globalization, democracy and development etc. (lu.se)
  • Among some of the more well-known victors here tonight are well-known democracy activists who got their start in the 2014 Umbrella Movement. (nhpr.org)
  • The programme will explore ways in which young climate activists can participate in the creation of local environmental and other youth policies as a way of contributing to building more just and sustainable local democracies. (salto-youth.net)
  • While the week is overseen by the Council of Europe, it is each local and regional community which organizes events centered on the selected theme. (wikipedia.org)
  • Unfortunately, this local progress and innovation is increasingly being blocked, or "preempted," by state and federal laws, preventing cities from passing ordinances that reflect local views and values. (abetterbalance.org)
  • [3] To date, 12 cities and counties in six states (Alabama, Iowa, Florida, Kentucky, Missouri, and Wisconsin) have approved local minimum wage laws only to see them invalidated by state statute, harming hundreds of thousands of workers in the process, many of whom face high levels of poverty. (nelp.org)
  • We will consider how Islam can (and in some cases does) live with secular democracy, and we will also consider how democracy can be possible even within a political system in which there is not a clear separation between church and state. (parkrecord.com)
  • Learn how DMI is simplifying data collection and analysis for CDC and its state and local partners. (cdc.gov)
  • We just never know but even so for each community or state or region, when you have your first local transmission, there will certainly be some communication questions that may come up. (cdc.gov)
  • Together, they will discuss local government and how everyone, from politicians to students, can work with people with whom they disagree. (commonwealthclub.org)
  • R esistance is rapidly growing against the government's attack on local pension fund divestment, with many voices speaking out against this attack on people concerned with human rights in Palestine. (palestinecampaign.org)
  • Are community events a good way to involve local people in scrutinising progress and setting future direction? (gov.scot)
  • Some people believe that local newspapers will eventually be replaced by new publications, which Coppins describes as "built from the ground-up for the digital era. (wqln.org)
  • While faith in democracy itself may be declining, here, young people are choosing involvement over disengagement. (aspeninstitute.org)
  • The PBA is designed to create a space for developing cooperation projects that link young people, environmental policies and local democracies. (salto-youth.net)
  • It is also possible that the democracy desired by the government is reversed with the running of the local wisdom desired by the Mandailing people. (atlantis-press.com)
  • And democracy means that people who look different might increasingly be in charge, and that causes some concern," Rhodes said. (sltrib.com)
  • And how does communication and interaction between people online influence such challenges to democracy? (lu.se)
  • We refer to this type of research as the N-body Society , considering the collective effects of local interactions within systems with many entities or people. (lu.se)
  • Democracy Forum 10/21/22: What's At Stake in Moore v. Harper? (weru.org)
  • At stake in the vote are the health of the nation's democracy, strained under the Law and Justice rule, and the foreign alliances of a country on NATO's eastern flank that has been a crucial ally. (centralillinoisproud.com)
  • At stake are the health of the nation's democracy, its legal stance on LGBTQ+ rights and abortion, and the foreign alliances of a country on NATO's eastern flank that has been a crucial ally to Ukraine. (centralillinoisproud.com)
  • This workshop tries to answer such questions by bringing together scholars from the social sciences analysing social media, communication, and democracy, with scholars working with mathematical modeling of networks and dynamical systems, such as electric power networks. (lu.se)
  • Starved of revenue, local news outlets have had to lay off staff, reduce coverage areas, or shut down altogether. (project-syndicate.org)
  • Each year over the next two years, the program is expected to place eight recent graduates in two-year paid reporting positions at news outlets that lack local coverage. (lwvwa.org)
  • In 1996, Amy Goodman began hosting a show on Pacifica Radio called â Democracy Now!â to focus on the issues and movements that are too often ignored by the corporate media. (vaildaily.com)
  • I teach and supervise on topics such as democracy, public administration, social movements, political theory and qualitative methods. (lu.se)
  • It also draws on the experiences of other places who've gone independent and provides the tools for taking action to reclaim local politics. (eco-logicbooks.com)
  • In today's globalizing world, there is growing emphasis on local democracy. (iknowpolitics.org)
  • Cleveland v. Ohio: Amicus Brief by Campaign to Defend Local Solutions et al. (abetterbalance.org)
  • President Frank-Walter Steinmeier urged Germans to "defend democracy" on the 75th anniversary of the destruction of Dresden in World War II on Thursday, as the emboldened far right rattles the political establishment. (thelocal.de)
  • The course explores the concepts of human rights and the promotion of democracy from theoretical, ethical and practical points of view. (lu.se)
  • While serving in Congress, I learned that visiting a local newspaper office was a great way to learn what constituents were thinking. (northdallasgazette.com)
  • The following illustration showcases another potent example of local ownership, where dozens of Iowa farmers invested in wind projects which sell power to the local electric cooperative, and reap tens of thousands of dollars in annual revenue. (ilsr.org)
  • The Government of Georgia currently has an opportunity to put more financial resources and decision-making power in the hands of local leaders. (civil.ge)
  • Flatpack Democracy sets out how Independents for Frome seized power. (eco-logicbooks.com)
  • A democracy in a majority non-white country kind of changes our whole conception of power. (sltrib.com)
  • In a nod to the Thuringia debacle, Steinmeier warned of vigilance against politicians trying "to destroy democracy from within. (thelocal.de)
  • First, the analysis reveals the overall commitment to e-democracy in local government, as it is a measure of actual behavior rather than simply an attitudinal survey. (irma-international.org)
  • Knight Foundation, Google and Facebook have pledged to spend $300 million each over the coming years to support local news, and the projects they have already funded can help jump-start your venture. (medium.com)
  • Democracy International e.V. (democracy-international.org)
  • Democracy Discourse: An In-depth Quiz to Celebrate the International Day of Democracy! (alda-europe.eu)
  • The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance is an intergovernmental organization. (lu.se)
  • ElectionGuide is provided by the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), an international non-profit dedicated to strengthening electoral democracy. (lu.se)
  • His findings suggest that success is related, most crucially, to how nationally centralized political authority is and how strongly institutionalized the opposition parties are in the local arenas. (psupress.org)
  • Political Science Quarterly: March 1905: Review: The American City: A Problem in Democracy. (psqonline.org)
  • Alternatives Local Global Political, 37 (2),165-177. (bvsalud.org)
  • And that has consequences for democracy, as journalist McKay Coppins writes in The Atlantic . (wqln.org)
  • If you're a reader of local newspapers - particularly the Chicago Tribune, The Baltimore Sun or New York Daily News - you're going to want to make sure the answer is yes. (wqln.org)
  • In a difficult climate for local news, these potential funders, supporters and collaborators can make all the difference between success and failure. (medium.com)
  • And what we've seen in a lot of these places where newspapers have been scaled back or even closed is there really is no comparable product in place, whether it's by the government or by another news organization, to do what these local newspapers have done for hundreds of years. (wqln.org)
  • So now is your time to act, to launch a new local news outlet that will provide the coverage of your community that has been sorely lacking for years. (medium.com)
  • Local efforts to raise the wage floor have seen a tremendous upsurge over the past six years, mostly as a result of the Fight for $15 movement, which began in late November 2012 in New York when fast food workers walked off the job, demanding $15 and a union. (nelp.org)
  • In both those earlier cases, our democracy also came under mortal threat, once from internal forces, once external. (localnews8.com)
  • We're going to go back and look at some of the communication aspects of first cases of local transmission. (cdc.gov)
  • Matt contends that the oft-quoted argument of Justice Brandeis (pictured to the left) that states may appropriately serve as laboraties for "novel social and economic experiments" applies equally well - indeed, perhaps even better - to cities and other local units of government. (marquette.edu)