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 ...

keeping direct democracy viable will channel the inevitable desire to change laws into productive directions instead of destructive ones. Marcus Gadson is the author of a forthcoming book about ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...