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...severe strain with right-leaning authoritarianism on the march and liberal democracy facing a very uncertain future. At the very time when humanity needs a robu ...to change through democratic means, it is a short step to the belief that democracy is a sham facade behind which secretive elites manipulate the system in the

...es of democratic participation. FPCs often have roles as vehicles for food democracy.<ref name="Bassarab 2019a" /> FPCs use collaborative governance frameworks ...h the policymaking bodies. Without a connection to food policymakers, food democracy does not transcend the confines of the FPC and thus necessarily falls short

...initiatives to a wider societal transformation towards sustainability and democracy, including the social and cultural changes this might imply.

The sustainability crisis is above all a crisis of democracy, reflecting appropriation of national and EU politics by vested financial i

...communal meals, decision-making based on consensus and/or consent, social democracy and equality, and the existence of shared spaces such as community centres

...an federation of renewable energy cooperatives. It seeks to promote energy democracy and citizen empowerment in debates on European energy futures, via four def

1997 – Förderpreis „Demokratie Leben“ („Living Democracy“ Sponsorship Award) ...ocracy.net/?p=1067, Elektrizitätswerke Schönau, Germany, article in Energy Democracy, Nov 2017]; accessed on 9 April 2020

*The democracy principle: equal decision-making power for each person within the organisat ...ty, mutualism, cooperation and reciprocity; social, political and economic democracy; universal equity and justice for all, including in relation to gender, rac

...y, solidarity, ecological sustainability, social justice, transparency and democracy. The notion of the common good implies that production-consumption systems

...municipal authority of a radical leftist coalition committed to grassroots democracy.<ref> Armerio, M., Di Angelis, M., 2017. Anthropocene: victims, narrators,

...economy/social-support-networks-springing-coronavirus-stricken-china/ Open Democracy] ...rkers-demand-refuge-in-vacant-apartments-hotels/ Truthout / Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!]

The sustainability crisis is above all a crisis of democracy, reflecting appropriation of national and EU politics by vested financial i

...ld potentially constitute the foundation of wider direct and participatory democracy<ref name=":0" />. This may include piloting and feeding back to smaller-sca

...a participatory society that includes, but goes beyond, both participatory democracy and consumer activism’.<ref>De Schutter, Olivier (2014): ''The EU’s Fif

...at were to shape the rest of the 20^th century, including social democracy and neoliberalism. As Block and Somers write: ‘Despite being much less we

...ns, education, healing and reparations, action by companies, participatory democracy and design of new more regenerative systems which operate within ecological * Participatory democracy (e.g. citizens assemblies)       

...orted activity relating to: food and agriculture, education, participatory democracy, planning and community work. Other topics mentioned included: [[inner tran

...tter management of ‘the commons’, and more effectiveness, transparency and democracy.

...g-term directions without much wider involvement, potentially jeopardizing democracy (Hendriks, 2009; see also Jhagroe & Loorbach, 2015).

The Citizens' Assembly was an exercise in deliberative democracy, placing the citizen at the heart of important legal and policy issues faci