A Brilliant Story of Participation, Technology and Development Outcomes
Originally posted on DemocracySpot:
A major argument for democratic governance is that more citizen participation leads to better outcomes through an improved alignment between citizens’ preferences and policies. But how…
Statistics on the Informal Economy: Definitions, Regional Estimates & Challenges
Statistics on the Informal Economy: Definitions, Regional Estimates & Challenges presents new regional estimates on informal employment based on direct measures from 40 countries and indirect measures from another 80 … Continue reading
The problem with ‘Start-up’ Urbanism
Originally posted on citiesaregoodforyou:
In 1958, three years before her masterpiece, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs wrote an article called “Downtown Is for People.” In…
Economists: An Anthropological View
Originally posted on Fixing the Economists:
‘Life Among The Econ‘ is a satirical paper written by the economist Axel Leijonhufvud and published in 1973. In the paper Leijonhufvud refers directly…
Technology and Citizen Engagement: Friend or Foe?
Originally posted on DemocracySpot:
Rio Grande do Sul Participatory Budgeting Voting System (2014) Within the open government debate, there is growing interest in the role of technology in citizen engagement.…
Notes on the Potential of Teaching Spatial Practices in Informal Urbanisms
Originally posted on {FAVEL issues}:
In his 2004 article Fallacies in Architectural Culture, Professor Doug Kelbaugh suggested that there were at least seven fallacies that shaped contemporary architectural culture.[i]…
Rights, social justice and development
In recent weeks, openDemocracy has published a number of interesting articles discussing the concrete impact of having social and economic rights legalized/incorporated into into a nations’ constitution. What is particularly interesting about … Continue reading
The State of Civil Society Report 2014
The State of Civil Society Report 2014: Reimagining Global Governance draws on contributions from more than 30 of the world’s leading experts on civil society as well as on inputs … Continue reading
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