Dig Deeper
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📕= Book / Report
✓ = Best Practices + Pioneers
✊= Advocacy group
🎥= Documentary / Film
CHAPTER ONE: The Mechanics of Exclusion
✓ Dazzling Notice Awards 🇨🇦
✓ PlainLanguage.gov
📕 The Fourth Wall exhibit 🇨🇦
✓ Plain Language Association International (PLAIN)
✓ Calgary's Vote Bus
✊ Why Tuesday? 🇺🇸
CHAPTER TWO: Leveling the Field
Lobbying
✊ Democracy Watch: Government Ethics Campaign 🇨🇦
📕 The Business of America is Lobbying (Lee Drutman, 2015)
📕 Corruption in America (Zephyr Teachout, 2016)
Civics Education
✓ City Hall School • Calgary 🇨🇦
✓ City Hall School • Edmonton 🇨🇦
✓ Edmonton Planning Academy 🇨🇦
✓ Synapcity Civics Boot Camp • Ottawa 🇨🇦
✓ Democracy Skills Civics and Citizenship Course 🇨🇦
Bite-sized local government
✓ New York City's Community Boards 🇺🇸
✓ Montreal's borough system 🇨🇦
CHAPTER THREE: Better Ballots
✊ FairVote Canada 🇨🇦
✊ Unlock Democracy Canada 🇨🇦
✊ Fair Vote 🇺🇸
✊ Electoral Reform Society 🇬🇧
✊ Unlock Democracy 🇬🇧
✊ LeadNow 🇨🇦
✊ Springtide 🇨🇦
CHAPTER FOUR: Bribes, Winks and Nods
✊ Democracy Watch: Money in Politics campaign 🇨🇦
✊ Stamp Stampede 🇺🇸
✊ Brennan Centre 🇺🇸
✊ Represent.US 🇺🇸
CHAPTER FIVE: It's my Party (and I'll cry if I want to)
📕 What I learned about Politics (Graham Steele, 2014) 🇨🇦
📕 Tragedy in the Commons (Alison Loat and Michael MacMillan, 2015) 🇨🇦
📕 Losing confidence (Elizabeth May, 2009) 🇨🇦
✊ Democracy Watch: Stop Muzzling MPs campaign 🇨🇦
CHAPTER SIX: Bloodsport
📕 "Cheering or Jeering" report by Samara Centre for Democracy 🇨🇦
📕 Losing confidence (Elizabeth May, 2009) 🇨🇦
📕 Tragedy in the Commons (Alison Loat and Michael MacMillan, 2015) 🇨🇦
📕 What I learned about Politics (Graham Steele, 2014) 🇨🇦
✓ A motion for randomised seating in the legislature
✓ Anima Leadership
📕 Kaianerekowa: Great Law of Peace
📕 What does Indigenous Participatory Democracy Look Like? (Kahente Horn-Miller, 2013)
📕 Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto (Taiaiake Alfred, 1999)
CHAPTER SEVEN: Taking the Reins
✓ Participatory Budget NYC 🇺🇸
✓ Participatory Budget Chicago 🇺🇸
✓ Participatory Budget Toronto (pilot) 🇨🇦
✓ Montreal's Right to Initiative 🇨🇦
✓ Strengthen Canada Project 🇨🇦
CHAPTER EIGHT: Street Neutrality
✊ Scenic America 🇺🇸
🎥 This Space Available (Gwenaëlle Gobé, 2011)
✊ Public Ad Campaign
✊ Toronto Public Space Committee 🇨🇦
✊ Scenic Ontario 🇨🇦
✓ Seattle/King County Metro Bus Shelter Mural Program 🇺🇸
✓ "Before I Die" project (Candy Chang)
CHAPTER NINE: Seeds of Change
📕 Canadian Charity Law (blog by Mark Blumberg) 🇨🇦
📕 The Givers (David Callahan, 2017) 🇺🇸
CHAPTER TEN: End of Heroes
Centralization of Power (Random selection)
📕 Losing confidence (Elizabeth May, 2009) 🇨🇦
📕 Tragedy in the Commons (Alison Loat and Michael MacMillan, 2015) 🇨🇦
✊ Democracy Watch: Stop PM/Premier Power Abuses 🇨🇦
✊ Democracy Watch: Stop Muzzling MPs 🇨🇦
Citizens Assemblies (Random selection)
✓ British Columbia Citizens Assembly 2005 🇨🇦
✓ MASS LBP 🇨🇦
✓ New Democracy Foundation 🇦🇺
📕 The Athenian Option - Radical Reform for the House of Lords (Anthony Barnett, Peter Carty, 2017) 🇬🇧
✓ Democracy in Practice • "Reinventing Leadership and Civic Education 🇧🇴
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Close to Home
Democratic Schools
✓ International Democratic Education Conference (IDEC)
✓ NorthStar Teens (Sunderland, Massachusetts) 🇺🇸
✓ JCOS (Lakewood Colorado) 🇺🇸
Democratic Workplaces (including financing and conversions)
✓ The Working World
✓ Project Equity 🇺🇸
Connected Neighbourhoods
✓ Empower LA 🇺🇸
✓ Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues 🇨🇦