At the second Summit for Democracy beginning this week, Transparency International is calling on leaders to strengthen transnational cooperation and endorse the recommendations of the Cohort on ...

Editor’s Note: This post is from our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonder’s data reporter. Subscribe to get a weekly map or graph straight to your inbox. Federal ...

At a time when public trust in government is eroding, transparency is not simply a matter of good governance. It is the heart of democracy. Sunshine Week, which begins March 16 and runs through March ...

Problems with the Washington Sunshine Committee go beyond a panel designed to oversee transparency in state government. They are reflective of persistent — and growing — efforts to undermine the ...

Editor's note: This is excerpted from Washington Attorney General Nick Brown's speech to the Washington Coalition for Open Government's March 14 Sunshine Breakfast in Bellevue. My philosophy is that ...

Much has been written about democracy, a very complex system of government. Nevertheless, we are thinking a lot about democracy now because we hear and feel that our democracy is being threatened. The ...

Democrats in the Legislature are spending their first week back from summer recess frantically redrawing the state’s congressional maps in response to redistricting efforts in Texas. They claim they ...

Norway is pushing for the strengthening of transparency in political party funding as an effort to safeguard democracy from ...

In 20 House districts across the state, voters in dozens of communities had the option last week of expressing their opinion on a nonbinding referendum that calls for increased transparency at the ...

Climate action in democracies is fragmented by electoral short-termism, interest-group capture, misinformation and judicial/bureaucratic constraints.