Direct democracy was common in the pre-modern world ... The combination of quantitative and qualitative data brought together in this book provides an invaluable framework for working through ...

Your editorial “Direct Democracy Dies in California” (June 21) implies that California is an outlier when it comes to preventing citizen-initiated ballot measures. In fact, 24 states don’t ...

Direct democracy through state ballot initiatives, initiated by both citizens and legislatures, holds potential for policy change relating to a large array of important social issues, including ...

Read our latest issue or browse back issues. Both books name and discuss an array of challenges wrought by our emergent era of digital democracy: the illusion of direct access to candidates and ...

With the title approved, the amendment’s sponsors can begin collecting signatures. They need to collect 90,704 valid ...

The Missouri Legislature is as predictable as a Kardashian divorce. It’s the shock and awe of Democrats and progressives that ...

It's called Banned Books Week and it runs through Saturday, Sept.28. “Book bans are a direct threat to democracy,” Blankenship said. “They do incredible harm to students, not only are they ...

Reforms and lawsuits aside, there’s a deeper issue here—the debate over how easy or difficult it should be to change our state’s constitution through direct democracy. "The petition and then ...