Almost everyone in Myanmar wants democracy, yet few have considered what kind of democracy best aligns with the country’s political realities. Myanmar has endured decades of political instability, ...

When his term expired in 2022, the regent of West Seram, a local jurisdiction in Indonesia’s Maluku province, couldn’t run for re-election. Article 18 of Indonesia’s constitution guarantees local ...

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A senior political figure in Syria’s Kurdish-led autonomous administration has warned that the region may be forced to seek independence if a decentralized political system is not established in the ...

Over the past 25 years, Rwanda’s decentralization has been central to transforming a deeply divided post-genocide society into a cohesive, inclusive, and forward-looking nation. Initiated in 2000 as a ...

The slow, arduous labour of democracy rarely announces itself with the fanfare of constitutional moments. It proceeds instead through committee rooms, ward meetings, half-attended assemblies, the ...