In late September, a dozen new students from Venezuela, some of the more than 15,000 asylum seekers bused to New York City by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, appeared at my child’s elementary school. At ...

The topic today is “Participatory Democracy”, which must be said from the onset is not a rhetorical concept — it either is or it isn’t. In simple terms, participatory democracy means the involvement ...

Yet, the internet can play a role in transforming the representative democracy into a participatory democracy". He stressed the fact that deficiencies in the infrastructure, in the administrative ...

What should concern us more than reminders about elections is a narrative that treats civic participation itself as a threat.

This is budget planning season for cities and towns all across Connecticut. From the largest cities like Bridgeport and Hartford, to the smallest towns like Canaan and Eastford, no matter where you ...

To assess whether AI strengthens or weakens democracy, the study evaluates its impact across five core democratic criteria: ...

Democracy is in crisis. Many people are losing confidence in political parties and parliaments and their ability to solve pressing social problems in the long term. Recent studies by the University of ...