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 ...

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 ...

In his book, “Pirate Enlightenment ... 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 ... 8 language remains on California’s books. Californians will once again decide whether to change the Constitution’s language ...

Many of those same concerns dominate today’s politics, but in California — one of 24 states to adopt the initiative in the years after Sullivan’s book — direct democracy seems like just ...

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 ...

Images: AP/Getty Images Composite: Mark Kelly Can Gov. Gavin Newsom please spare us the lectures about the MAGA threat to democracy? On Thursday California’s Supreme Court ruled in favor of the ...