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TMU Democracy Internship
The TMU Democracy Internship provides an opportunity for students to acquire valuable experience and develop practical skills through university-based initiatives, civic organizations and community partners working to strengthen democratic engagement, institutions and practices in Canada.
The internship provides a stipend for students to work up to 120 hours with internal and external partners. These include the Democratic Engagement Exchange, Institute for Future Legislators, and Women in the House at TMU, as well as Equal Voice, the Canadian International Council, Unlock Democracy Canada, and the Maytree Foundation.
Democracy After Covid
What Lessons Can Canada Offer and Learn?
Participedia Phase 2
By democratic, we mean practices or institutions that potentially advance ideals of self-government—individually, collectively, and across time, space, and geography. By innovations we mean practices or institutions that are relatively new to a context or place. These range from deliberative “mini-publics” (e.g. citizens’ assemblies) and popular assemblies (e.g. participatory budgeting), to protests, e-democracy, and land reform movements.
Our mission is to mobilize knowledge about democracy-enhancing practices and institutions that people are inventing, remolding, protecting, and transferring from other contexts.
How can we avoid democratic backsliding?
(Conference) Over the last decade, a regressive political turn has occurred in many countries and regions of the world, a phenomenon many scholars call ‘democratic backsliding’: a deterioration in the norms, institutions and practices we associate with modern democratic governance.
What can actors, organizations and governments do, independently and in concert with others, to stem democratic backsliding in the short term and reverse its trajectory over the medium to long term?