Falun: on the road to becoming a ‘Democracy City’ in Sweden

Performance indicators

A recent poll in Falun schools has offered an interesting insight: A survey of 13 to 18-year old pupils in local schools revealed that 80% of the young people would like to become more involved in local decision-making but only 20% knew how to do this. The objective of ‘Democracy City’ is to double, if not triple, the percentage of those who can say that they know about the tools and processes for influencing local decisions and how to use them. At the same time, the traditional relatively high turnouts at local, regional, national and EU related elections should be maintained. At the end of the day, the key performance indicator will be whether the question “do you feel you can make a difference in your home town?” will be answered positively or negatively.