Knowledge: democracy
See Also:
- science → social sciences → political science → political philosophy
- society → politics → alternative political systems
Links
- Democracies Online
http://www.e-democracy.org/do/ - Promoting the development and sustainability of online civic participation and democracy efforts around the world through experience, outreach, and education.
- Indonesia: The People's Resistance in Indonesia [CSVI]
http://www.xs4all.nl/~peace/www.html - The Indonesian Page of People Movement for Justice and Democracy.
- Comparative Democratization Project
http://democracy.stanford.edu/ - A Stanford University project studying emerging democracies. Features a large directory of Internet resources, a collection of syllabi from leading democracy scholars, and seminar papers.
- Caucasian Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development (CIPDD)
http://www.armazi.demon.co.uk/cipdd.html - "Main Objectives are to promote democratic and free-market values, to publicize the major achievements of Western democratic thought, and to encourage a non-partisan theoretical analysis of the problems of the post-communist transition process in Georgia and the Caucasus region."
- Free China Movement
http://www.freechina.net/ - Information and statements from the movement, with a discussion forum.
- Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU)
http://www.ipu.org/ - The world organization of parliaments. Site about parliamentary democracy, elections, human rights, participation of women in politics, and about how it all works on the level of national legislative institutions and internationally.
- Democracy Watch
http://www.dwatch.ca/ - An independent, non-profit, non-partisan Canadian citizen advocacy organization seeking to empower Canadians as voters, citizens, taxpayers, and consumers.
- IDEA - International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
http://www.idea.int/ - Objective is to promote and advance sustainable democracy and to improve and consolidate electoral processes world-wide.
- Center for International Policy
http://www.ciponline.org/ - Founded in 1975 to promote a U.S. foreign policy that reflects democratic values.
- Celestial Democracy
http://www.homestead.com/wysinger/ - Scientologist site on democracy and political philosophy.
- The Western Democratic Tradition
http://www.ourcivilisation.com/cooray/westdem/ - An explanation and description of the western democratic tradition by a professor of constitutional law.
- Islamic Iran Participation Front
http://www.mosharekat.com/ - Promoting democracy in Iran.
- CITIDEP
http://www.citidep.pt/ - A non-profit, multi-national research institution on participatory democracy, with focus on the impact of information technologies. Site lists activities, research areas, papers, and events.
- On Plato's Criticism of Democracy
http://web.singnet.com.sg/~chlim/plato.html - Essay accepting Plato's observations of the weaknesses of democracy, but recognizing that the weaknesses can be minimized.
- Centre for Democracy and Development
http://www.cdd.org.uk/ - A non-profit, non governmental, institution dedicated to policy-oriented scholarship on questions of democratic development and peace-building in West Africa. Site includes press releases, strategy statement, current projects and publications, and partner organizations.
- UNDP Democratization and Governance
http://www.undp.org/governance/ - United Nations conference on new or restored democracies; documents, statements, links, and related General Assembly resolutions available.
- National Democratic Institute for International Affairs
http://www.ndi.org/ - Non-profit organization associated with the Democratic Party of the United States. Site describes current programs and research projects on the development of democracy, as well as a searchable resource exchange for democratic activists and practitioners.
- Ratifiers for Democracy
http://www.ratifiersfordemocracy.org/ - A democratic model that harmonizes representative and direct democracy, to ensure that legislation is citizen-mandated, and to be a loophole-free way to clean up the control that money and special interests now have in politics.
- National Endowment for Democracy
http://www.ned.org/ - A private, nonprofit, grant-making organization created to strengthen democratic institutions around the world. Offers access to research and analysis of democratic development around the world.
- Network Democracy
http://www.network-democracy.org/ - Projects involve the use of Internetworking technologies to facilitate public participation in the processes of state, local and federal governments.
- Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor
http://www.state.gov/www/global/human_rights/index.html - One of the four bureaus that comprise the Office of the Under Secretary for Global Affairs. Responsibilities include promoting democracy worldwide, formulating U.S. human rights policies, and coordinating policy in human rights-related labor issues.
- Center for Voting and Democracy
http://www.igc.apc.org/cvd/ - Provides information to the public about the impact of voting systems on political representation, proportional representation, voter turnout, and the influence of money in elections.
- Maximiliano Herrera Human Rights Site
http://www.angelfire.com/ma/maxcrc/ - Personal site dedicated to the promotion of the freedom and the democracy around the world. Includes international election calendar, freedom ratings, links to international media and organizations, and a list of countries facing political instability.
- Ethic of Citizenship
http://www.ethicofcitizenship.com - Introduces the book "Toward an Ethic of Citizenship Creating a Culture of Democracy for the 21st Century".
- Websters World of Cultural Democracy
http://www.wwcd.org/ - A Web center for information and discussion about the world of cultural democracy.
- Ballot Initiative Strategy Center
http://www.ballot.org/ - An organization dedicated to helping progressives participate in launching ballot intiatives and democratic action.
- International Republican Institute
http://www.iri.org/ - Non-partisan Washington, DC-based group which conducts programs outside the United States to promote democracy and strengthen free markets and the rule of law. Site lists activities, volunteer opportunities, links, and historical speeches.
- CommonBorders
http://www.commonborders.org/ - A non-partisan organization of volunteer international election observers based in Victoria, British Columbia. Site describes activities in Latin America, lists goals and objectives, and provides application form.
- International Resource Center for Democracy (IRCD)
http://www.polsci.indiana.edu/ircd/ - An independent endeavor to make scholarly ideas and information on democracy more accessible, housed at Indiana University. Links to political and activist resources as well as constitutions, elections, human rights, and regionally oriented sites.
- Democracy Coalition Project
http://demcoalition.org - An Open Society Institute initiative supporting civil society coalitions around the world that promote democratic reforms.
- PSI - Defining Georgian Democracy
http://www.psigeorgia.org/ - Partnership for Social Initiatives' fundamental goal is to help develop and advance democratic institutions and beliefs in Georgia.
- About Democracy
http://guibord.com/Democracy - Details how "the essence of Democracy" the way Greeks from antiquity meant it and lived it is the exact opposite of our so-called "democracies" of today.
- Institute for Multiparty Democracy IMD
http://www.nimd.org/ - Supports the process of democratisation in young democracies. Based in The Hague, Guatemala and Maputo (Mozambique).
- Foundation for Democracy in Africa
http://democracy-africa.org/ - A Washington based non-profit, nonpartisan organization focused on strengthening and enhancing the fundamental principles of democracy, and freedom in Africa.
- MajorityVoice.com
http://majorityvoice.com/ - A free, non-partisan, local/global, issue-specific, democratic forum system designed to enable humanity to define, proclaim and achieve common goals.
- Network for Economic and Political Democracy
http://www.nepd.org.uk - Aims to create the conditions for an alternative to New Labour and a new, truly democratic society.
- StateDemocracy.com
http://www.statedemocracy.com - Aims to increase the American public's participation in the legislative processes for more democratic representation. Reports current events in Congress and State legislatures and offers communication between Citizens, legislators and interest groups.
- International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO)
http://simpol.org/ - A plan to transform the ruthless competition of globalization into global cooperation.
- A More Perfect Union
http://library.thinkquest.org/26466/ - Challenges to American Democracy are discussed within this website, along with sociological views of government. ThinkQuest semifinalist.
- World Citizen Foundation
http://www.worldcitizen.org/ - Nonprofit nonpartisan think-tank dedicated to the design of solutions to international problems based on the fundamental principles of equal human dignity, liberty, democracy and constitutionally protected basic rights of all. Activities, resources, volunteer information, staff, and petitions.
- World Movement for Democracy
http://www.wmd.org/ - Nongovernmental effort to strengthen democracy where it is weak, to reform and invigorate democracy even where it is longstanding, and to bolster pro-democracy groups in countries that have not yet entered into a process of democratic transition.
- Time to Reengineer Democracy?
http://www.reengineerdemocracy.com - An invitation to a broad discussion to explore a reengineering of democracy for the better of all people on earth.
- Electoral Systems
http://worldpolicy.org/globalrights/prindex.html - Includes information about electoral systems of the world, as well as a focus on proportional representation.
- Wikipedia: Democracy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy - Definition from an open content encyclopedia.
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