Kit.Decide: Create your own campaign
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A short guide on designing and launching a communications campaign.
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Nationwide citizens' assembly on energy costs (Poland)
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A video and report on the process and proposals from Poland's citizens' assembly on energy costs, organized by the Shipyard Foundation, which took place between September and December 2022.
Read MoreCitizen participation on complex issues: Experiences from development work
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This report presents case studies of citizen participation across 10 Swedish municipalities and provides a model for designing citizen participation for social change, primarily at the local and regional government level.
Read MoreBrazilian democracy can count on the strength of citizen deliberation
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A report on a series of deliberative minipublics run by the Decidania program in Brazil.
Read MoreUnconscious cognitive biases in groups working together
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An overview of 6 major types of cognitive biases that tend to arise when groups of people work together.
Read MorePlacemaking for democracy: Community toolkit
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Useful tools for workshops and activities at every stage of planning, designing and facilitating a community-led placemaking process with citizens.
Read MoreFrom governance reform to democratic reform?
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An academic article discussing democratic models and reforms in China, drawing on the participatory budgeting reforms in Wenling as a case study.
Read MoreManual for the implementation of youth participatory budgeting
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This guide introduces youth participatory budgeting, detailing the stages of design and implementation and the conditions necessary for a successful process.
Read MoreInnovation kit: Practical tools for promoting public innovation
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A toolkit to promote public innovation in policy administration, with a focus on citizen-centered design.
Read MoreConsolidating authoritarianism with limited democratic governance
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An academic article using the case study of participatory budgeting reforms in Wenling, China to discuss the reality and limitations of democratic reform in an authoritarian regime.
Read MoreTo participate, I learn participating: School government and participation
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A booklet containing information about school governments in Bogota, Colombia.
Read MoreEffects of the internet on participation in Brazil
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A study of the traits and attitudes of over 22,000 internet voters from Rio Grande do Sul during a referendum on state-level spending priorities.
Read MoreManual of participatory methods
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A handbook with practical tools and techniques for participatory processes, primarily aimed at activists and social movements or collectives.
Read MoreParticipatory budgeting: How to give local people a voice in funding decisions
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A short video that explains how participatory budgeting works.
Read MorePractical guide for the development of local participatory budgeting
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A short handbook on designing and managing municipal-level participatory budgeting (PB).
Read MoreCitizens’ assembly websites: Practical guidance
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A short handbook on designing websites for citizens' assemblies.
Read MoreParticipatory budgeting experience in Meilan (Haikou), China
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An article discussing the pilot participatory budgeting program launched by the government of Meilan District in Haikou City between 2016 and 2017.
Read MoreEnabling national initiatives to take democracy beyond elections
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A handbook on planning and designing a citizens' assembly or jury.
Read MoreHow Taiwan's 'civic hackers' helped find a new way to run the country
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An article on the use of the digital participation platform Polis in Taiwan to build consensus on hot-button political issues.
Read MoreLet's give Xindian a better future
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This short documentary presents a local participatory budgeting (PB) process in Taiwan.
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