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 ...

CT Mirror’s independent, nonprofit journalism depends on reader support. This is budget planning season for cities and towns all across Connecticut. From the largest cities like Bridgeport and ...

Voting is not a privilege for states to restrict or manipulate. It is a fundamental civil right and one worth protecting. A ...

Hélène Landemore’s new book argues that we need a new, more inclusive system of governance that is less elitist and more participatory to cure what ails democracy. Hélène Landemore.(Courtesy of the ...

To the editor: On March 20 and 21 Brattleboro Representative Town Meeting convened via electronic means to approve essential articles, amend and pass the town budget, and discuss many important issues ...

This essay focuses on recent proposals to confer decisional status upon deliberative mini-publics such as citizens’juries, Deliberative Polls, and citizens’assemblies. Against such proposals, I argue ...

There is a saying, popular in anarchist circles, that “elections are the means by which we choose the sauce with which we will be basted.” For anarchists there is a deep problem with claims of ...