Why do we value wise democracy’s “prime directive”?
The Wise Democracy Project has a guiding principle – its prime directive to evoke and engage the wisdom and resourcefulness of the …
The Wise Democracy Project has a guiding principle – its prime directive to evoke and engage the wisdom and resourcefulness of the …
Taboo uses social pressure and self-censorship to keep us from thinking, talking or behaving in ways our social group doesn’t want us …
Powerful elite think tanks and mainstream media are beginning to favorably notice citizen deliberative initiatives that continue to rapidly emerge and evolve …
In this post and the previous one , I share the first chapter of my short book PARTICIPATORY SUSTAINABILITY. The book contains …
Among the many trends I see in my work on democratic innovation I highlight two here, one in Canada, one in the …
We know we can scale up democratic exercises like voting to embrace thousands or millions of people. But what about scaling up …
What does it mean to live in a “post-truth era”? Is there a broader history and context feeding that phenomenon than just …
Entertainment media like soap operas and video games are being used for social change – to shift the embedded stories of our …
Below are excerpts from six articles describing two upcoming national and international initiatives that could further undermine our already shaky ability to exercise informed self-governance. The first anti-democracy initiative is the apparent re…