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📕= Book / Report   
✓ = Best Practices + Pioneers
✊= Advocacy group
🎥= Documentary / Film

CHAPTER ONE: The Mechanics of Exclusion

✓  Dazzling Notice Awards 🇨🇦
✓ PlainLanguage.gov
📕 The Fourth Wall exhibit 🇨🇦 
✓ Plain Language Association International (PLAIN)
✓  Calgary's Vote Bus
✊ Why Tuesday? 🇺🇸

 CHAPTER TWO: Leveling the Field

Lobbying

✊ Democracy Watch: Government Ethics Campaign 🇨🇦 
📕 The Business of America is Lobbying (Lee Drutman, 2015)
📕 Corruption in America (Zephyr Teachout, 2016)

Civics Education

✓ City Hall School • Calgary 🇨🇦 
✓ City Hall School • Edmonton 🇨🇦 
✓ Edmonton Planning Academy 🇨🇦 
✓ Synapcity Civics Boot Camp • Ottawa 🇨🇦 
✓ Democracy Skills Civics and Citizenship Course 🇨🇦 

Bite-sized local government

✓ New York City's Community Boards 🇺🇸 
✓ Montreal's borough system 🇨🇦 

CHAPTER THREE: Better Ballots

✊ FairVote Canada 🇨🇦 
✊ Unlock Democracy Canada 🇨🇦 
✊ Fair Vote 🇺🇸 
✊ Electoral Reform Society 🇬🇧
✊ Unlock Democracy  🇬🇧
✊ LeadNow 🇨🇦 
✊ Springtide 🇨🇦 

CHAPTER FOUR: Bribes, Winks and Nods

✊ Democracy Watch: Money in Politics campaign 🇨🇦 
✊ Stamp Stampede 🇺🇸 
✊ Brennan Centre 🇺🇸
✊ Represent.US 🇺🇸 

CHAPTER FIVE: It's my Party (and I'll cry if I want to)

📕 What I learned about Politics (Graham Steele, 2014) 🇨🇦
📕 Tragedy in the Commons (Alison Loat and Michael MacMillan, 2015) 🇨🇦
📕 Losing confidence (Elizabeth May, 2009) 🇨🇦
✊ Democracy Watch: Stop Muzzling MPs campaign 🇨🇦

CHAPTER SIX: Bloodsport

📕 "Cheering or Jeering" report by Samara Centre for Democracy 🇨🇦
📕 Losing confidence (Elizabeth May, 2009) 🇨🇦
📕 Tragedy in the Commons (Alison Loat and Michael MacMillan, 2015) 🇨🇦
📕 What I learned about Politics (Graham Steele, 2014) 🇨🇦
✓ A motion for randomised seating in the legislature
✓ Anima Leadership
📕 Kaianerekowa: Great Law of Peace
📕 What does Indigenous Participatory Democracy Look Like? (Kahente Horn-Miller, 2013)
📕 Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto (Taiaiake Alfred, 1999)

CHAPTER SEVEN: Taking the Reins

✓ Participatory Budget NYC 🇺🇸 
✓ Participatory Budget Chicago 🇺🇸
✓ Participatory Budget Toronto (pilot) 🇨🇦
✓ Montreal's Right to Initiative 🇨🇦
✓ Strengthen Canada Project 🇨🇦

CHAPTER EIGHT: Street Neutrality

✊ Scenic America 🇺🇸 
🎥 This Space Available (Gwenaëlle Gobé, 2011)
✊ Public Ad Campaign 
✊ Toronto Public Space Committee 🇨🇦 
✊ Scenic Ontario 🇨🇦 
✓ Seattle/King County Metro Bus Shelter Mural Program 🇺🇸 
✓ "Before I Die" project (Candy Chang)

CHAPTER NINE: Seeds of Change

📕 Canadian Charity Law (blog by Mark Blumberg) 🇨🇦
📕 The Givers (David Callahan, 2017) 🇺🇸 

CHAPTER TEN: End of Heroes

Centralization of Power (Random selection)

📕 Losing confidence (Elizabeth May, 2009) 🇨🇦
📕 Tragedy in the Commons (Alison Loat and Michael MacMillan, 2015) 🇨🇦
✊ Democracy Watch: Stop PM/Premier Power Abuses 🇨🇦
✊ Democracy Watch: Stop Muzzling MPs 🇨🇦

Citizens Assemblies (Random selection)

✓ British Columbia Citizens Assembly 2005 🇨🇦
✓ MASS LBP 🇨🇦 
✓ New Democracy Foundation 🇦🇺 
📕 The Athenian Option - Radical Reform for the House of Lords (Anthony Barnett, Peter Carty, 2017) 🇬🇧 
✓ Democracy in Practice • "Reinventing Leadership and Civic Education 🇧🇴 

CHAPTER ELEVEN: Close to Home

Democratic Schools

✓ International Democratic Education Conference (IDEC)
✓ NorthStar Teens (Sunderland, Massachusetts) 🇺🇸 
✓ JCOS (Lakewood Colorado) 🇺🇸 

Democratic Workplaces (including financing and conversions)

✓ The Working World
✓ Project Equity 🇺🇸

Connected Neighbourhoods

✓ Empower LA 🇺🇸 
✓ Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues 🇨🇦 

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