Realizing Democracy: Policymaking as Powerbuilding

In our second inspiring discussion, “Realizing Democracy: Policymaking as Powerbuilding,” we focus on the lessons in inclusive democracy learned by a broad group of policymaking experts and movement leaders and offer actionable policy and institutional design strategies geared toward rebalancing community authority in governance. K. Sabeel Rahman, president of Dēmos, Hollie Russon Gilman, a fellow in the Political Reform Program of the New America & Columbia World Projects, and Joelle Gamble, principal for Reimagining Capitalism at the Omidyar Network, discuss tying policies to programmatic decision-making and stakeholder participation; democratizing and expanding community control of public goods; and creating more responsive, accountable governments.

SSIR is proud to join the Ford Foundation in presenting “Realizing Democracy: Policymaking as Powerbuilding” as part of The Realizing Democracy Project. SSIR also partnered with the Ford Foundation to produce the 24-page Realizing Democracy supplement that appeared in the Winter 2020 issue of our magazine.