As Congress returns tomorrow to start a new session, the open-source OpenCongress.org is excited to announce a *major* update that puts every bill and vote at your fingertips. It's never been easier to track what's happening with your government. Now on Op

... This left many questioning his democratic credentials, and the country’s democratic model as well. Mr Ismaila Madior Fall, ... says: ‘‘The idea of a Senegalese democratic model is a tiny bit of reality and a

Three is a crowd in our current voting system. Plurality voting, where the candidate with the most votes wins, is dysfunctional when more than two candidates run. It promotes zero-sum politics that discourage new candidates, suppress new ideas and encourag

Togo is currently at the crossroads regarding President Gnassingbé Eyadéma's announcement that he will step down as president at the next presidential elections in 2003. Currently, the political situation is dominated by co-optation, intimidation and elimi

Politics is all about branding. And brands are not about issues or details - they're about identity. When progressives and Democrats think of how Bush voters understand the word "Republican," they assume these folks are thinking "pro-life"; "moral values";

INVOLVER is an alliance of independent organizations, venues and artists who are pissed off about the state of our country and are facilitating a new political movement with two solutions: 1. Convincing our generation that we have to get involved in politi

... funding to a country whose democratic design looked like ours. There is ... ambitious conceptual work and dramatic reform proposals, our goal was to offer ... array of pragmatic policy proposals—reforms that could be implemented relatively

Congresspedia was launched in April, 2006, as a joint project of the Center for Media and Democracy and the Sunlight Foundation . The editor of Congresspedia is Conor Kenny of the Center who is based in Washington, DC. Congresspedia contains articles on ev