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Expanding the imagination of democracy


Expanding the imagination of democracy: PB in Paris

In 2014, the City of Paris started the world's largest participatory budget (PB). It began as a test-run a few months after Mayor Anne ...

Democracy in South Asia: An Expanding 'Imagination' - Sage Journals

This article focuses on the five countries of South Asia to answer this question and arrives at the conclusion that there is often a large gap.

Opinion | The hard and sacred work of renewing democracy

Resisting the end of our democracy requires a similar spirit. Creating a United States for our time means growing into the nation we've become.

Imagination and Democracy - The Junkyard

The problem of imagination poses a real challenge to democratic politics. Today, it is reflected in the growing concern with the capacity of ...

Imagine a Democracy - Citizen Network

Modern democracies must tap into the power of citizenship to tackle our severe environment and social problems. Author: Simon Duffy. This talk (or rather a more ...

The Case for Expanding Democracy Work - Forge Organizing

One of its key projects is to center pro-democracy organizers who work across the political spectrum in envisioning what a Constitution could ...

The Democracy Manifesto: Re-imagining Democracy in Our Time

The Arab democratic upsurge of 2011 inspires democrats all over the world. It has fired up the imagination of all those struggling for self-rule ...

Citizen Speak: The Democratic Imagination in American Life

But in Citizen Speak, Andrew J. Perrin argues that these activities are only a small part of democratic citizenship—a standard of citizenship that requires ...

Expanding Our Constitutional Imagination - Balkinization

It is a welcome sign of the expansion of our constitutional imagination. As Rick notes, the fight for American democracy over the centuries has ...

The Democratic Imagination - Envisioning Popular Power in the ...

"The Democratic Imagination provides a readable and provocative analysis of the different ideas about democracy." —Judy Rebick, Activist and author of Occupy ...

Can Americans be optimistic about their democracy?

Americans will need to recapture their sense of political imagination and regain confidence in their ability to transcend political divisions ...

Working on the Democratic Imagination and the Limits of ... - jstor

POLITICAL RESEARCH QUARTERLY. Page 3. WORKING. ON. THE. DEMOCRATIC. IMAGINATION. 621. BEYOND THE "BEYOND" OF DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY: EXPANDING THE DEMOCRATIC ...

Why the Future Is Democratic | Journal of Democracy

The swelling pessimism about democracy's future is unwarranted. Values focused on human freedom are spreading throughout the world, and suggest that the ...

Democracy for All: Beyond a crisis of imagination - WACC Global

This article sets out the conclusions of a year-long research project led by CIVICUS, the global civil society alliance. Our consultations heard the voices ...

Democracy as a way of living - The Loop

Democracy is a relational and situated process. There is no limit to practices of democratic living we can (re)invent together. Imagine a care- ...

GOVERNING BEYOND IMAGINATION: THE “WORLD HISTORICAL ...

Here, however, I reflect on democracy from the standpoint of the history of political thought; my business is to take a sober look back and ahead. Democratic ...

Political Imagination, Democracy as a Way of Life - Manifold @CUNY

Democracy as a way of life seeks to expand democracy in political, economic, and educational institutions and in our social relationships. Dewey proposes “all ...

The Democratic Imagination | Opinion - The Harvard Crimson

One of the arguments used by the advocates of market deregulation has been that the level of economic output has to increase in order to have ...

The Democratic Imagination: Envisioning Popular Power in the ...

As we ask these questions, the authors hope our collective understanding of democracy may be expanded, leading to a renewed engagement with and ...

The imagination and public participation: a Deweyan perspective on ...

Democratic practices remain an ongoing concern in Participatory Design (PD), with an increasing focus being directed towards citizens' roles in formal ...


The Canterbury Tales

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The Canterbury Tales is a collection of twenty-four stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. It is widely regarded as Chaucer's magnum opus.