"Freedom of information is a significant legal instrument in the UK… While central government Freedom of Information (FOI) statistics are well covered… there is no equivalent picture for local…
"There is little research on whether pro-youth mechanisms actually improve youth engagement. This report begins to fill that gap by analyzing the effect on youth engagement of four specific pro-youth…
"NDI developed the “Youth Leading Debate” program to provide young people with an opportunity to learn the art of competitive debate and develop practical political leadership skills. This manual…
"CEPPS established the Youth Democracy and Governance (DRG) Cross-Sectoral Initiative to examine the intersections between DRG and other youth development sectors... This initiative explored…
"The Sharp Power and Democratic Resilience series is an effort to systematically analyze the ways in which leading authoritarian regimes seek to manipulate the political landscape and censor…
A new report, ‘Global Democracy and COVID-19: Upgrading International Support’, highlights how some governments are using the public health crisis to further curtail democratic activities and…
“The analyses presented in these essays span a range of topics—media sustainability, authoritarian influence, fact-checking, research partnerships, data privacy—affecting regions like Europe, North…
This article aims to “provide a framework...that could make clearer how different modes of participatory democracy could hang together as a whole that’s more than the sum of the parts of open…
This article supports “the NLGN’s call for a Community Power Act and argues “that it can only be as good as the process that creates it, the principles and culture that underpin it” and build “upon…