Before you read this, a note worth sitting with.… That story is fiction. The frustration in it is not. And the gap between Switzerland’s model and most people’s lived experience is exactly what this system is designed to close. Switzerland consistently records democratic satisfaction rates roughly four times higher than comparable western nations. Not because…
Around the world 70% of people support the concept of Direct Democracy versus 77% support for Representative Democracy. That’s despite Direct Democracy not even existing yet. We share important information here from Pew Research. Full details of this research at https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2024/02/28/representative-democracy-remains-a-popular-ideal-but-people-around-the-world-are-critical-of-how-its-working/ Enthusiasm for Representative Democracy has slipped in many nations since 2017. And the survey…
2023 has been a big year of 30th anniversaries for us. In 1993 we were married. FairVote, the organization we helped found, moved into its first …
As the latest global biodiversity summit gets underway in Colombia, finance for the conservation and restoration of nature is one of the key themes …
History doesn’t always repeat itself, but sometimes it sure does come awfully close.As one does at 3am when they should be sleeping or cleaning or …
Te Hīkoi mō Te Tiriti outside Parliament Buildings, Wellington, November 19, drew tens of thousands opposed to the Principles of the Treaty of …
