To Fix, Improve, and Transform Democracy
Democracy is in trouble around the world. Thankfully, we see many creative responses emerging to meet that challenge. Among other initiatives, the …
Democracy is in trouble around the world. Thankfully, we see many creative responses emerging to meet that challenge. Among other initiatives, the …
There is much debate in my circles about how to respond to the the current crisis in democracy and our social fabric. …
Democracy is rule of, by and for the people. There are many ways to try doing that. This message looks at a …
Amidst the informative, fearsome, inspiring upheaval of voices and energies we’ve witnessed and/or been part of this last week, I offer here …
Some people think that democratic decisions should be made by everyone in the community or country – or their representatives. Others think …
Stakeholders are citizens involved with a specific issue or domain, whose activities actually constitute that issue or domain. Thus the stakeholders of …
We know we can scale up democratic exercises like voting to embrace thousands or millions of people. But what about scaling up …
How could we generate vTaiwan-like citizen- and stakeholder-engaged government elsewhere? In this post I explore the nature of government engagement with participatory …
A lot of people I know are freaked out that Donald Trump’s electoral victory means that the country is swinging rightward to …
The US 2016 electoral season has featured some of the most dysfunctional and dangerous political dynamics we have seen yet – and …