Global Learning on Democracy Innovation
The results of Club de Madrid’s recent Policy Dialogue on Rethinking Democracy, including all the sessions, supporting documents, and Concluding Document
Club de Madrid’s related work with the Global Commission on Democracy and Emergencies
The Healthier Democracies project, a partnership of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Public Agenda, and Apolitical
Civic Tech in the Global South: Assessing Technology for the Public Good, edited by Tiago Peixoto and Micah Sifry
Information on the upcoming Global Parliamentary Union report on Parliaments and Public Engagement
Governance Diaries, an approach for researching the democratic actions of marginalized people in fragile, authoritarian, or conflict and violence-affected states
An online course on engagement offered by Apolitical, an international learning community for government officials and staff
Measuring Democracy, Engagement, and Civic Health
More on NCoC’s Civic Health Index (see also the session hosted by Jeff Coates at the conference).
Reports produced by Joe Hoereth and the Institute for Policy and Civic Engagement at UIC-Chicago
Jonathan Collins’ research on how democratic processes can improve the educational experiences of students in low-income and minoritized communities, and the ways in which people of color, particularly African Americans, engage with American democracy.
Democracy Counts 2020, IDHE’s national NSLVE report on student participation in the 2020 U.S. election
The Simon Fraser University Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue has just released their Where to Start? Workbooks for Evaluating Democratic Engagement Impacts, which provides step by step suggestions and question packets for identifying how programs or activities shift participants’ views of democracy and engagement. They are hosting an online launch event on Nov 17, 1pm PST – Register Here
Making Change Visible: Evaluating Efforts to Advance Social Participation in Health is a new guide that walks people through a participatory process for charting the impacts of their work:
Civic Infrastructure
Our Common Purpose: Reinventing American Democracy for the 21st Century
Two interviews with Harold McDougall on the importance of civic infrastructure, the centrality of small-group discussion, and the need for top-down and bottom-up forces for social change
The Our Common Purpose report, which includes the rationale for the National Trust for Civic Infrastructure
Public Agenda’s guide to Strengthening and Sustaining Public Engagement, which describes engagement as a part of civic infrastructure:
The Handbook for Deliberative Community Forums developed by the Program for Deliberative Democracy as part of their work to strengthen civic infrastructure in Pittsburgh
A New Frontier for American Democracy: How Do We Resource It?
What Does the Kettering Foundation Do?
Connections 2020: The Work of Democratic Citizenship
With The People: An Introduction to an Idea
Our Divided Nation: Is There a Role for Philanthropy in Renewing Democracy?
Democracy and Civic Life: What Is the Long Game for Philanthropy?
Safety, Justice, and Policing: Insights from 2017 Forums That Speak to Today