Interactive
Adventures in Democracy
What Happens to Your Community When You Show Up — and What Happens When You Don't
The meeting happened without you. So did the vote. So did the decision about your street.
For the person who has ever wondered whether their vote, their attendance, or their voice changes anything — neighbors who showed up once and felt invisible, residents who stopped going, anyone who lives somewhere long enough to care about it.
The Name It First Experience
You were told that voting is enough. It is not. Democracy lives in your school board, your zoning meeting, your water district. Your Democracy Field Guide puts you in the room where it happens — interactive scenarios that show how local decisions are made and what ordinary participation looks like. The output is a completed field guide for your specific community. Stress-tested and signed.
You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.
Sample questions
- What does showing up in your community actually produce — and what does not showing up cost?
- What does civic participation look like when you trace its effects over time?
- What would you do differently if you could see clearly what your choices produce?
Research basis
Putnam on social capital and civic participation / Fung on participatory governance and democratic innovation / Verba, Schlozman, and Brady on voice and equality in American civic life.
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Every format asks the same questions and produces the same document.
Print Paperbackpersonalize
A real book and a pen. Write in the margins. The most permanent version of you on a page.
$24.99
eBook + journal
The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.
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Audiobook
We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.
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Hardcoverpersonalize
The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.
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Digital Fill + membership+membership
Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.
$9.99
Hands-Free Interactive + membership+membership
Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.
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The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.
Essential path
Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.
Full depth
Every question. Every scenario, every angle.
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