The Everyday Democracy Index
Measuring empowerment in everyday life across Europe
What are the most democratic countries in Europe? How would we find out? We could look at electoral turnouts. But while elections matter, Demos doesn’t believe that democracy is something that should start and finish at the ballot box.
That’s why we’re developing the Everyday Democracy Index (EDI). EDI is a tool for assessing the democratic health of European countries across many different dimensions. That includes the formal dimensions of democracy, like procedural rights and election turnout. But it also includes more everyday features of democracy – how important democratic principles and practices are to the cultures of workplaces, to people’s community life, to the way they interact with public services, and even to the way they talk to their friends and family.
That’s why we’re developing the Everyday Democracy Index (EDI). EDI is a tool for assessing the democratic health of European countries across many different dimensions. That includes the formal dimensions of democracy, like procedural rights and election turnout. But it also includes more everyday features of democracy – how important democratic principles and practices are to the cultures of workplaces, to people’s community life, to the way they interact with public services, and even to the way they talk to their friends and family.
everyday democracy video
3:34pm Tuesday, 1st January 2008
happy new year. winter 2007 will see our 2005 pamphlet everyday democracy reincarnated as a series of indicators and an index. we are finalising the details of the launch , which will probably be towards the end of this month now. in the meantime here's a 4 minute refresher on everyday democracy. it's not easy crunching a policy pamphlet into four watchable minutes, so some of the subtlety may have been lost here, for which I apologise, but hopefully you get the gist.
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