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Democratic Public Services
Topic category
Future is Public
TNI's Democratic Public Services initiative champions transformative governance in public services. Committed to enhancing citizen engagement and collective ownership, it explores progressive procurement models, strengthening workers' rights, reducing inequalities, and creating transparent, locally driven economies. This work underscores TNI's dedication to democratic principles, empowering communities for sustainable societal impact.
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Progressive Public Procurement Toolkit Building local democratic economies through public community partnerships
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Rivers of resistance Water for life, not profit
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Designing Future Public Ownership Global lessons from Labour’s plans for public ownership of key sectors 2016–2019
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Public Water and Covid-19 : Dark Clouds and Silver Linings
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Public Finance for the Future We Want
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Reclaiming Public Services How cities and citizens are turning back privatisation
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Our Public Water Future The global experience with remunicipalisation
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Public Water and Covid-19 Dark Clouds and Silver Linings
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The Future is Public Democratic Ownership of Public Services
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Democratic and collective ownership of public goods and services Exploring public-community collaborations
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Money for People and Planet
Podcast
The financial crisis of 2008 revealed the limitations of our current neoliberal financial order. As banks and other financial institutions lost their grip on financial markets across the world, it was the world’s governments that stepped in and saved the system on the backs of their taxpayers. If they have the capacity to create public money to save the banks, why don’t democratically elected governments use that same power to create money and involve people in order to solve problems of such as debt, poverty and the climate crisis?
