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participedia centre for democratic innovation explore engage innovate 0 skip to content about partnership grants participedia school media publications democratic pedagogies podcast newsletter reports events visit participedia net open menu close menu about partnership grants participedia school media publications democratic pedagogies podcast newsletter reports events visit participedia net open menu close menu about partnership grants participedia school folder media publications back democratic pedagogies podcast newsletter reports events visit participedia net a global community for democratic innovation research and practice visit participedia net to explore the worlds largest crowdsourced dataset on participatory democracy sshrc partnership grant phase 2 research clusters in 2021 participedia won its second sshrc partnership grant and established research clusters in several thematic areas under the umbrella of democratic innovations the new clusters expanded on the project s phase 1 focus on participatory governance participatory governance phase 1 of the participedia project focused primarily on participatory governance a processes that directly involve citizens in those policies and laws that affect them b ways that political systems can benefit from the knowledge and energies of everyday people and c policies and other collective actions produced in response to citizen needs and interests this phase 2 research cluster will build upon and expand the extensive knowledge base that participedia has developed but with a closer focus on challenges to democracy human political rights rights are key vectors of democracy when backed by institutions and supportive political cultures human and political rights support democracy by limiting coercion providing safe spaces for political organizing speaking and expression and underwriting welfare securities for active citizenship moyn 2010 sikkink 2011 they are very often the topics and sites of political struggles for inclusion this research cluster will map theorize document and explain innovations in human and political rights particularly those that support democracy and democratization democratic representation representativerelationships have long been understood as essential to expanding democratic inclusions over time and space while competitive elections remain the central institution for accountable representation based on jurisdiction innovative non electoral forms of representation including advocacy groups representative citizen bodies and ngos are increasingly important to the reach and depth of democracy castiglione warren 2019 montanaro 2017 saward 2010 hendriks 2019 gastil knobloch 2020 new forms of representation are central to reinventing indigenous settler state relationships and reconciling constitutional orders ladner 2003 2005 they are especially important in developing countries particularly those with weak state capacities and or unresponsive institutions anciano piper 2019 indigenous rights the indigenous right cluster aims to curate cases on indigenous practices of political representation and participatory governance for the participedia website where democratic innovations worldwide are aggregated throughout the year project members meet to discuss cases of indigenous political practices and reflect on their broader significance for democratic theory and their challenges to western views of democracy democratic accountability we usually understand democratic accountability as achieved through competitive elections but elections often prove to be blunt and ineffective methods for holding political elites accountable to the people they should serve competitive elections can co exist with high levels of corruption low responsiveness to marginalized groups inattention to collective goods and even authoritarianism jenkins goetz 2006 gandhi lust okar 2009 even in developed democracies with high levels of election integrity complex large scale political and policy environments can make achieving accountability difficult for citizens over the last few decades however some long standing mechanisms of accountability are being tried in new contexts e g in indian states including traditional constitutional and legislative actors developing and exercising new horizontal oversight capabilities and newer institutional actors e g ombudspersons comptrollers auditor generals that scrutinize executive actions gargarella domingo roux 2006 gloppen gargarella skaar 2004 tushnet 2008 ruparelia 2013 democracy across borders a crucial area of democratic innovation yet also the most difficult to theorize are responses to multi dimensional issues that flow across borders rask et al 2019 erman kuyper 2019 hale koenig archibugi 2019 existing nation state borders often map poorly onto political problems and transboundary issues borders are often legacies of wars and or colonial imposition and in part because local and regional issues are increasingly interconnected with transnational and global issues such issues pose threats to self government that are broadly existential like climate change collective security trade or watershed management or to specific groups communities such as indigenous peoples displaced persons and refugees lightfoot 2016 ibhawoh 2003 2020 democracy digital communications digital strategies that use social media to spread rumours and to micro target voters represent a clear and present danger to democracy tenove et al 2018 at the same time innovationsin digital democracy are proving essential to broadening inclusion scaling smaller deliberative processes to broader publics and facilitating responsive government van dijk 2018 asenbaum 2019 it is important to track online platforms and projects that still exhibit the potential that excited democratic innovators before the current threats emerged and to document those digital threats dahlberg 2011 dahlberg siapera 2007 smith 2009 hacker van dijk 2000 data 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