Four ways cities can help protect democratic values

By Marta Wojciechowska, Lecturer in Politics, King's College London
James Hickson, Research Associate, Heseltine Institute for Public Policy, Practice and Place, University of Liverpool
Joe Hoover, Reader in Political Theory, Queen Mary University of London

When people think about democracy, they tend to think about national elections, parliaments or the policies of national governments. Even the recent byelection in Holborn and St Pancras showed that democratic events are often framed around what they mean for the fortunes of the national leaders, rather than what they mean for daily life within a community.

But this focus on the national level and on the procedures associated with democracy is shortsighted. Our work, bringing together political…

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