The Time for Engaging Citizens in Democracy Is Now
Participatory budgeting represents an authentic way of making a government literally of the people, by the people, and for the people.
Tech Governance
Including Rural Communities at the Policy-Making Table
What might it look like for people in rural communities to have their views reflected in the policy landscape?
Buckets of Opportunity in Rural America
Factoring Schools into the Calculus of City Budgeting
There's an unlikely source of input into Austin's public budget—the city's public school students.
Commit to Local Action
This year, let's resolve to rebuild our civic muscles by getting involved at the local level.
Commit to Local Action
This year, let's resolve to rebuild our civic muscles by getting involved at the local level.
Rebuilding our Civic Muscles
Feeling down in the dumps? Here are three steps you can take today to fight for the things that matter.
Rebuilding our Civic Muscles
Feeling down in the dumps? Here are three steps you can take today to fight for the things that matter.
Only More Democracy Can Save Democracy
What if the solution to the crisis of American democracy was actually more democracy?
From Transparency to Democracy
What's better than openness? Openness coupled with engagement.
Democracy Reinvented
For participatory budgeting to work, a healthy American democracy is a must, according to a new book by Hollie Russon-Gilman.
Democracy and Its (Very Many) Critics
Hollie Russon-Gilman argues that the narrative of our broken democracy doesn’t tell the story of the citizens who are trying to fix it.