Beyond Elections

How You Live

August 2024

Just as integrity, or corruption, starts with how each one of us lives our lives, so does democracy.

Beyond Elections is a collection of original stories, op-eds and conversations – supported by

People Powered

– about participatory democracy and our collective ability to reimagine what democracy looks like between and beyond election cycles.

A collaboration between

Proximate

and

People Powered

Editorial

Democracy Starts With How You Live

Integrity starts with how we live our lives; so does democracy

By Pam Bailey

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People Powered is a global hub for participatory democracy - the direct participation of community members in making the policy decisions that affect their lives.

Proximate is a media platform that aims to amplify and connect movements for new models of participatory problem-solving.

Beyond Elections

How You Live

August 2024

Editorial

Democracy Starts With How You Live

Democracy Starts With How You Live

We Need a ‘Just Transition’ from One Democracy to Many

We Can Do Public Meetings Better

Zimbabwe NGO Helps the People Take Charge of Climate Resilience

Seeing People as Citizens, not Consumers

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