Surf these sites: 4Democracy -- A guide to democracy from 4anything.com, including links to various civic organizations, political parties, and historical documents. A More Perfect Union -- Challenges to American Democracy are discussed within this website, along with sociological views of government. ThinkQuest semifinalist. By Eric Barr and Taylor Rankin. Alliance for Democracy -- A Populist movement promoting the end of, what they believe to be, the domination of our society and government by large corporations. Approaching Democracy -- Provides links to source documents, organizations and individuals that have shaped the American system of democracy. Ballot Initiative Strategy Center -- An organization dedicated to helping progressives participate in launching ballot intiatives and democratic action. Benton Foundation -- Benton seeks to shape the emerging communications environment and to demonstrate the value of communications for solving social problems. Through demonstration projects, media production and publishing, research, conferences, and grantmaking, Benton takes on the critical questions for democracy in the information age. [International] Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor -- 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. CSVI -- People''s Resistance in Indonesia -- People Movement for Justice and Democracy. Carter Center -- A nonprofit public policy center founded by Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter to fight disease, hunger, poverty, conflict, and oppression around the world. Caucasian Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development (CIPDD) -- "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." Celebrating Democracy -- A collective project of The Smithsonian Institution, Library of Congress, and The National Archives. Includes archival coverage of the 1997 and 1993 presidential inaugurations. Celestial Democracy -- Scientologist site on democracy and political philosophy. Center for International Policy -- Founded in 1975 to promote a U.S. foreign policy that reflects democratic values. Center for Media and Democracy -- A non-profit, organization dedicated to investigative reporting on the public relations industry. The Center serves citizens, journalists and researchers seeking to recognize and combat manipulative and misleading PR practices. Center for Voting and Democracy -- 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. Center for the Evolution of Democracy -- A non-profit organization dedicated to the task of making new ideas and information available for the purpose of democratizing undemocratic systems, and for improving democratic processes that are still only partially realized. Center for the Study of Islam & Democracy (CSID) -- A Washington DC think tank dedicated to propagating that Islam and democracy are compatible. Conference on Women and Democracy -- Official site from the international gathering aiming to draw attention to the importance of women’s full participation in democracy. Took place in Iceland on October 8-10, 1999. Congressional Email Directory -- Searchable by name or state. Democracies Online -- Promoting the development and sustainability of online civic participation and democracy efforts around the world through experience, outreach, and education. Democracy 2000 -- A non-profit organization that helps develop and implement ways to involve citizens in local and national civic life. They also help organize political debates. Democracy Experience -- Offers access to information and news about democracy. They make it easy for the layperson by supplying contacts for political action. Democracy Lab -- Provides services, information and consultation for the purpose of enhancing participatory democracy. Democracy Place -- Offers a forum for citizens to participate in public policy debates. Helps citizens find the information needed to understand the issues of this campaign year with stories, interviews, and polls. Democracy Watch -- An independent, non-profit, non-partisan Canadian citizen advocacy organization that works with Canadian citizens and organizations to empower Canadians in their roles as voters, citizens, taxpayers, and consumers. Destination Democracy -- An organization seeking to advance the issue of campaign finance reform. Direct Democracy League -- DDL advocates national and state level constitutional renewal to meld direct democracy institutions with our representative institutions. Documents and links. Electoral Systems -- Includes information about electoral systems of the world, as well as a focus on proportional representation. Ethic of Citizenship -- Introduces the book "Toward an Ethic of Citizenship Creating a Culture of Democracy for the 21st Century". Foundation for Democracy in Africa -- A Washington based non-profit, nonpartisan organization focused on strengthening and enhancing the fundamental principles of democracy, and freedom in Africa. Free China Movement -- Information and statements from the movement, with a discussion forum. Future Family,and Nature -- To build a healthy Future, the American People would eliminate the bad effects of progress. By promoting at the same time the good side of progress, we would reach an optimal solution for the country, with compromises made in society and the economy. Global Coalition World Democracy 2010 -- The Global Coalition World Democracy 2010 is an alliance of governmental, inter-governmental, and civil society organizations, agreeing to a minimal common statement of goals and design principles for global democratic institutions. The coalition is not a new formal organisation, but rather a coalition inspired from examples such as the Coalition for an International Criminal Court, the International Campaign to Ban Landmines, and the Millennium NGO Forum. The coalition builds on the preference for a democratic force of law rather then law of force, at a global level. IDEA - International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance -- Our objective is to promote and advance sustainable democracy and to improve and consolidate electoral processes world-wide. Independent of specific national interests, we provide a forum for interaction and exchange of experiences among a variety of global actors involved in promotion of democracy. Institute of Peace and Democracy -- Studies the problems of conflict resolution, ways of preserving peace in the region, and security and development issues. Inter-Parliamentary Union -- IPU Islamic Iran Participation Front -- This site is promoting democracy in Iran. National Endowment for Democracy -- 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 -- Projects involve the use of Internetworking technologies to facilitate public participation in the processes of state, local and federal governments. OurVoices -- "Join the Global People''s Assembly movement! Time has come to establish a true grassroots decision-making body to fill the void of global policy making. Millennium Peoples Assembly Network is a wide coalition of large and small organizations dedicated to the inclusion of the People in the new global power structure." Peace Brigades International, North America Project -- Provides upon request international human rights observers for Native American communities in Canada and the United States. Special online reports are available at this site. Procesos: sustainable democracy for Central America -- Studies about the democracy in Central America Ratifiers for Democracy -- Proposing a democratic model that is a harmonization between direct and representative democracy. Re''ut-Sadaka -- - Jewish-Arab Youth Organization for Peace and Democracy Suffrage Universel -- articles, links, bibliographies about the complex relations between citizenship, democracy, ethnicity, nationality, mainly in French The Center for Democracy and Technology -- CDT is dedicated to building consensus among all parties interested in the future of the Internet and other new communications media. The Western Democratic Tradition -- An explanation and description of the western democratic tradition by a professor of constitutional law. Virginia Citizenship Institute -- A nonpartisan alliance of educators, students, business, political, and community leaders dedicated to addressing the Commonwealth’s current and future public policy challenges. Webster''s World of Cultural Democracy -- A World Wide Web center for information and discussion about the world of cultural democracy.
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