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Conflicts Over Wage Floors: What Led to Minimum Wage Increases in the US States Between 2013 and 2022?

open access: yesPolitics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 4, August 2026.
ABSTRACT After 2013, the number of statewide minimum wage increases in the United States surged. However, not every state followed the trend. Some refrained from minimum wage legislation completely. This article examines the causes of differences in state minimum wage policies from 2013 to 2022, taking a qualitative perspective on minimum wage politics
Emanuel Schuller
wiley   +1 more source

La democracia directa en Uruguay [PDF]

open access: yesRevista de Derecho Electoral, 2008
Describe la trayectoria de Uruguay como uno de los países del mundo con una larga y rica tradición en el uso de los institutos de democracia directa. En Uruguay plebiscito y referéndum son conceptos distintos.
Rodolfo González Rissoto
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Abriendo caminos. Los procesos de participación ciudadana promovidos a nivel institucional en el ámbito local, como escuela de profundización democrática

open access: yesForum Revista Departamento de Ciencia Política, 2019
Las administraciones, los gobernantes y los responsables políticos tienen en su mano la capacidad de generar espacios de democracia directa en sus ámbitos de actuación, especialmente a nivel local, abriendo caminos que van más allá de la democracia ...
Néstor García-Montes
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Gender Dimensions of Support for Local Policy: Resident, Policymaker, and Policy Gender

open access: yesPolicy Studies Journal, Volume 54, Issue 3, August 2026.
ABSTRACT There is a well‐established triadic relationship between satisfaction with public services, trust in leaders, and policy support in developed democracies. This study takes a novel approach by considering how gender is associated with the strength and direction of these connections, an element underexplored in the literature.
Aliza Forman‐Rabinovici, Itai Beeri
wiley   +1 more source

Sobre el control de constitucionalidad de los mecanismos de democracia directa. Un análisis desde la teoría de la democracia deliberativa. [PDF]

open access: yesRevista Lecciones y Ensayos, 2019
La pregunta que este trabajo pretende responder es cómo deberían tratar los tribunales a los productos de los mecanismos de democracia directa. Para esto, el marco teórico elegido es la teoría de la democracia deliberativa.
Emiliano Martín Vitaliani
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Evaluating Ballot Initiative Results for Adult‐Use Marijuana in Ohio: Understanding County‐Level Support

open access: yesPolitics &Policy, Volume 54, Issue 3, June 2026.
ABSTRACT In the 2023 November election, Ohioans voted in favor of Issue 2—the Marijuana Legalization Initiative. The successful passing of this initiative at the ballot box made Ohio the 24th state and largest Republican voting state to adopt a recreational adult‐use marijuana policy. Issue 2 was voted in favor of by a margin of 57% to 43%.
Gideon Cunningham   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

La democracia directa en Bolivia [PDF]

open access: yesRevista de Derecho Electoral, 2008
Inexistente a principios del siglo XXI, el referéndum se ha convertido en Bolivia en un instrumento político de primer orden, lo que no va sin dificultades o contratiempos.
Salvador Romero Ballivián
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Video Assistant Referee(ndums): A Populist Weapon or Effective Tool to Stop Autocrats in Competitive Authoritarian Regimes in Latin America?

open access: yesLatin American Policy, Volume 16, Issue 4, December 2025.
ABSTRACT In recent years, video assistant referee systems have been increasingly used to correct unfair decisions in sports. Similarly, I argue that constitutional referendums play a corrective role in hybrid or competitive authoritarian regimes, where the electoral referee is biased and the government enjoys unfair advantages.
Muhammet Derviş Mete
wiley   +1 more source

Uso y diseño de referendos: un ensayo práctico desde IDEA internacional (Traducción no oficial ) [PDF]

open access: yesRevista de Derecho Electoral, 2007
Presenta un ensayo práctico de IDEA Internacional sobre el referéndum y la democracia directa producto de un trabajo investigativo realizado en Europa y América Latina.
Andrew Ellis
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The effect of place on voting behavior: The case of the Arizona proposition to legalize recreational marijuana

open access: yesPolitics &Policy, Volume 52, Issue 1, Page 196-226, February 2024.
Abstract In 2020, Arizonans approved Proposition 207, the Smart and Safe Arizona Act, which legalized recreational marijuana sales. Previous research has typically used non‐spatial survey data to understand marijuana legalization voting patterns. However, voting behavior can, in part, be shaped by geographic context, or place, which is unaccounted for ...
Mason Clay Mathews   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

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