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Documentation, initiatives, and organizations that address emergent participatory, global and transparent democracy.

Organizations
Labs for Online Democracy
- LABODEMO Spain
- GOVLAB NYU
- OpenGov Foundation U.S.
- My Society UK
- Delib Team

Transparency
- PPF, Participatory Politics Foundation
- VoteSmart
- MySociety
- Little sis

Open Data
- Sunlight Foundation
- Open Data Institute

Jurnals and Outlets on New Democracy
- JeDEM EDemocracy & Open Gov
- Tech President
- openDemocracy
- Open Citizenship- Journal
- Extreme Democracy
- Participedia		 E-Democracy Research Centers

California Report Card

E-democracy Centre, Switzerland

CITRIS | Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society

Global Network Initiative

C2D, Centre for research on direct democracy

ZDA, Centre for Democracy Studies Aarau

International Conferences
- eDemocracy & eGovernment
- Personal Democracy Forum

Open and Civic Goverment
- Democratic Society UK
- Involve UK
- OpenGov Partnership		 Think Tanks

Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) Global Internet Politics

CIVICUS: Participatory Governance global online platform - United Nations - Non-governmental Liaison Service

Global Governance Futures
Ahead 10 years and recommend ways to address global challenges

Partecipatory Democracy Projects

PG Exchange platform on participatory governance (UN)

Democracy OS Argentina

Participatory Budgeting NYC

Platforms for E-Democracy
Apps and Web platforms
- Agora Voting
- Loomio
- Kuorum
- Appgree
- Liquid Feedback
- Democracy OS
- D-CENT		 Concepts for Online Democracy
- Radical transparency
- Social software
- Reputation system
- Social translucence
- Planning Cells
- Agonism 		Experimental
-The New IRS
-Blockchain Decision Platform
-BitCongress
-The After Party

Publications
Global Governance

Networked Governance: The Future of Intergovernmental Management
By Jack W Meek, Jack W. Meek, Kurt Thurmaier

High Noon: 20 Global Problems, 20 Years To Solve Them
By Jean-Francois Rischard

Global Public Policy: Governing without Government
By Wolfgang H. Reinicke

Critical Choices. The United Nations, Networks, and the Future of Global Governance
By Wolfgang H. Reinicke, Francis Deng, Jan Martin Witte, Thorsten Benner, Beth Whitaker, John Gershman

Global Democracy
Normative and Empirical Perspectives
By Daniele Archibugi, Mathias Koenig-Archibugi, and Raffaele Marchetti

Power in the Global Age: A New Global Political Economy
By Ulrich Beck

Direct Democracy Worldwide
By David Altman
Books on Democracy within Internet

The Rise of the Network Society:
The Information Age
By Manuel Castells

Democracy and New Media.
By Henry Jenkins and David Thorburn.

Radical Democracy and the Internet
By Lincoln Dahlberg, Eugenia Siapera

Leaderless Politics. New World Academy Reader #3: Leaderless Politics
By Jonas Staal, Dirk Poot

Open Government
Collaboration, Transparency, and Participation in Practice
By Daniel Lathrop, Laurel Ruma

Open Source Democracy
By Douglas Rushkoff

Making Democracy Fun
How Game Design Can Empower Citizens and Transform Politics
By Josh Lerner

Digital Democracy
Issues of Theory and Practice
By Kenneth L Hacker, Jan van Dijk

Influential Papers

The Frontiers of Networked Governance
International Institute for Sustainable Development

Global Governance Futures Various publications

In place of 'global democracy'
By Michael Saward

Evaluation of Citizen Engagement Initiatives
DemocracySpot

Radical Democracy

The Participatory Democracy: Prospects for Democratizing Democracy
By Dimitrios Roussopoulos

The Leaderless Revolution. How Ordinary People Will Take Power and Change Politics in the 21st Century
By Carne Ross

Real Utopia: Participatory Society for the 21st Century.
Edited by Chris Spannos

Alternative Economics, Alternative Societies
By Oliver Ressler

Publications in PDF
Global Democracy
- Cosmopolitan Democracy Archibugi.pdf
- Gloabal Democracy Saward.pdf
- Global Governance Critical Choices United Nations.pdf
- Networked Governance IISD.pdf
- Supranational Constitutionalism Cuesta.pdf
- Transnational Democracy Jonsson.pdf
- Transnational Direct Democracy Kauffmann.pdf
- Transnational Normative Orders Kjaer.pdf
 Democracy & Internet
- Emergent Democracy Lebkowsky.pdf
- Leaderless Politics NWA PP.pdf
- Open Goverment OReilly.pdf
- Open Source Democracy Rushkoff.pdf
- Politics 2.0 Broadband Political Participation Italy.pdf
- Radical Democracy And The Internet.pdf
- The Second Superpower Moore.pdf
- Understanding EDemocracy.pdf
 Comparative Studies
- Legislatures And Executives.pdf
- Legislative Oversight.pdf
- Judical Politics.pdf
- Electoral Systems.pdf
- EU Legislative.pdf
- US Governance.pdf

Wikipedia Articles
New Democracy through Internet
-Online deliberation
-Collaborative e-democracy
-Open-source governance
-EDemocracy
-Online consultation
-Emergent democracy

Institutional Initiatives
-EGovernment
-eRulemaking
-Open Government Initiative
-Parliamentary informatics
-Electronic voting in Estonia
-Open Voting Consortium

Models of Democracy
-Direct democracy
-Participatory democracy
-Consensus democracy
-Deliberative democracy
-Collaborative governance
-Network governance
-Open society
-Policy jury
-Liberal democracy
-Parliament
-Democracy
-Social Contract
-Civic engagement
-Constituent Assembly
-Single Transferable Vote
-Second Superpower
-World Governance Indicators
 Alternative Democracy
-Deliberative opinion poll
-Consensus Conferences
-The People's Parliament

-Bioregionalism
-Anticipatory democracy
-Panarchism
-Sociocracy
-Polycentric law

-Sortition
-Urtak
-Demarchy

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