As national political fights are waged at the state level, democracy itself pays the price Over the past generation, the Democratic and Republican parties have

This pioneering work of political history recovers the central and largely forgotten role that petitioning played in the formative years of North American democ

Democracy does not deliver on the things we have assumed are its natural outcomes. This, coupled with a growing sense of malaise in both new and established dem

This book investigates participatory budgeting—a mainstay now of World Bank, UNDP, and USAID development programs—to ask whether its reforms truly make a di

This text assembles the evidence of how democratic institutions and processes are changing and considers the larger implications of these reforms for the nature