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Direct Democracy and Ballot Initiatives articles on Democracy Chronicles

This section has the latest DC news on direct democracy, something akin to a pure democracy, a form of democracy whereby people decide policy initiatives directly as opposed to a representative democracy. Cooperatives (Co-ops), Democratic Workplaces, Collectives, Communes, Intentional Communities, Referendums and Ballot Initiatives are also featured right here until we build more content for this neglected area of democratic experimentation. Also see our section on American democracy and get more info at Voting Methods Central.

Swiss Preschoolers Learn Democracy in ‘Citizenship Project’

By DC Editors - January 25, 2021 Leave a Comment

Swiss Preschoolers Learn Democracy

Swiss preschoolers line up to cast their ballots in a vote that will shape lives in the make-believe village where they call the shots.

Filed Under: Democracy Culture Tagged With: Direct Democracy and Referendums, Education, Europe, Switzerland

Innovative New Book is a User’s Guide to Democracy

By DC Editors - January 20, 2021 Leave a Comment

User's Guide to Democracy

Providing solutions to the real problems facing humanity in the world today – solutions that are so practical that they have been tried and tested.

Filed Under: Democracy in America Tagged With: Direct Democracy and Referendums

How Swiss Referendums Still Thrive Amid Covid

By DC Editors - January 14, 2021 Leave a Comment

Swiss Referendums direct democracy

The worry was that new rules would make life impossible for citizen campaigners, who rely on human contact and rallies to launch initiatives.

Filed Under: International Democracy Tagged With: Direct Democracy and Referendums, Europe, Switzerland

Sources of resilience: Democracy ‘contains seeds of its own recovery’

By DC Editors - December 1, 2020 Leave a Comment

Sources of resilience: Democracy ‘contains seeds of its own recovery’

Some have warned that populist drives are likely to cause democracies to die. However, democracy contains the seeds of its own recovery.

Filed Under: International Democracy Tagged With: Direct Democracy and Referendums, Journalism and Free Speech, Worldwide

How people power builds democratic resilience

By DC Editors - November 18, 2020 Leave a Comment

How people power builds democratic resilience

A new perspective looks at the role of people activism in shaping democracy. It argues that it plays a key role in building democratic resilience.

Filed Under: International Democracy Tagged With: Democracy Protests, Direct Democracy and Referendums, Worldwide

Why doesn’t people power work like it used to?

By DC Editors - October 26, 2020 Leave a Comment

Why doesn’t people power work like it used to?

“People power, which democratized countries from South Korea and Poland in the 1980s to Georgia and Ukraine in the 2000s and Tunisia in 2010, has been on a losing streak”, perspective.

Filed Under: International Democracy Tagged With: Democracy Protests, Direct Democracy and Referendums, Worldwide

Is Direct Democracy the Cure for What Ails the Nation?

By DC Editors - October 7, 2020 Leave a Comment

Allowing Americans to vote, by referendum, on the biggest issues wouldn’t be legally challenging or risky.

Filed Under: Democracy in America Tagged With: American Local Elections, American State Elections, Direct Democracy and Referendums

Civil society sources of Ukraine’s resilience

By DC Editors - June 17, 2020 Leave a Comment

Civil society sources of Ukraine’s resilience

Ukraine is geopolitically sandwiched between European democracy and Russian kleptocracy. Its civil society remains its best chance to fight-off the latter.

Filed Under: International Democracy Tagged With: Dictatorships, Direct Democracy and Referendums, Europe, Russia, Ukraine

The people, not Congress, should vote to impeach or acquit the President

By Ngah Gabriel - February 7, 2020 6 Comments

The people, not Congress, should vote to impeach or acquit a President

The partisan nature of the impeachment process is the stamp of America’s flawed democracy. The people, not Congress should be the ones to impeach or acquit.

Filed Under: DC Authors Tagged With: Democrats, Direct Democracy and Referendums, Republicans

Belgium’s experiment in permanent forms of deliberative democracy

By DC Editors - January 19, 2020 Leave a Comment

Belgium’s experiment in permanent forms of deliberative democracy

The parliament of the Region of Brussels in Belgium amended its internal regulations to allow the formation of ‘deliberative committees’.

Filed Under: International Democracy Tagged With: Direct Democracy and Referendums, Europe

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