Direct democracy in America is under attack. That development has been underappreciated as we focus on the vibe shift represented by Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election.

Professor John G. Matsusaka of the University of Southern California, who authored the book Let the People Rule: How Direct Democracy Can Meet the Populist Challenge, told me that “both parties ...

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 elected officials, the spread of fake news and ...

Direct democracy was common in the pre-modern world, ... In the book, we show how democracy was championed by Europeans where they constituted a majority or a sizable minority, ...

Direct democracy processes play an important role in state policy making related to the myriad drivers of population health and health disparities. Stakeholders who are focused on public policy ...

In his book, “Pirate ... gendered economics and direct democracy behind a legendary 18th-century pirate province. The bleeding edge of the Enlightenment’s democratic revolution, ...

Direct democracy – or legislating through the ballot ... ruled in favor of the right to marry for same-sex couples in 2015, but the Prop. 8 language remains on California’s books.

In his 2004 book For the Many or the Few, the University of Southern California economist John Matsusaka found that ballot initiatives—those direct-democracy routes around the legislature—tend ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — A fight over how easy it should be to change the state's constitution is escalating with this year's second direct democracy ballot initiative. 'Protect AR Rights' is now ...

You write in your book about American democracy reaching a breaking point, and this being an unprecedented moment. But critics say there was, for example, more political violence in the late 1960s.

This week, there's an effort to raise awareness about nationwide book restrictions. It's called Banned Books Week and it runs through Saturday, Sept.28. “Book bans are a direct threat to ...

A new book, “Tyranny of the Minority,” by Steve Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, argues that America’s Founding Fathers created a now-outdated system that allows a partisan minority in the US to ...