European partnership for democracy, EPD

Democracy-support: From recession to innovation. Open Democracy.

The sense that democracy is in retreat worldwide has become widespread. But the emergence of citizen-centred, governance-focused and development-oriented approaches suggests that a more complex and hopeful shift is also taking place, say Nicholas Benequista & John Gaventa. 

http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/idea/democrac
y-support-from-recession-to-innovation