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The revolution next door. [PDF]

Br J Sociol
Calnitsky D, Wannamaker KP.
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Direct democracy in Switzerland

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Direct Democracy and the Constitution

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
This chapter applies a comparative view to evaluate initiatives and referendums in the context of Constitutional change. Instruments of direct democratic decision making are compared to those of a purely representative democratic system in which members of parliament decide Constitutional issues like basic rights, the scope of democratic decision ...
Frey, Bruno S., Stutzer, Alois, Neckermann, Susanne   +2 more
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Referendums and Direct Democracy

2020
We start by tracing the origins of modern-day direct democracy back to the ideas of participatory democrats, and we give a systematic overview of the different forms of direct democratic practices existing today, as well as of the main criticisms of direct democracy. Next, we review existing empirical evidence on some of the crucial debates surrounding
Colombo, Céline, Kriesi, Hanspeter
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Measuring Direct Democracy

2016
The empirical theory of democracy, contrasting the “classical” conception, is often said to have been conceived by Schumpeter (1962). Since then, a lot of theoretical and empirical contributes have been added. Most of them are directly related to the approach proposed by the venerable founding father.
FIORINO, NADIA, Ricciuti, Roberto, Venturino, Fulvio   +2 more
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Direct Democracy and its Critics: Support for Direct Democracy and ‘Stealth’ Democracy in Finland

West European Politics, 2009
In this article support for direct democracy and for stealth democracy in Finland is analysed. Stealth democracy represents a step towards a democracy in which there would be even less citizen involvement than in the representative form of today's democracy.
Åsa Bengtsson, Mikko Mattila
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State Direct Democracy

2013
In this article, the authors assess the relationships between opinion, public policy, and state-level direct democracy. They argue that despite assumptions about dramatic effects of direct democracy on state policy, evidence on the matter is mixed and we know relatively little about how popular initiatives translate public opinion into policies.
Todd Donovan, Shaun Bowler
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The Efficiency of Direct Democracy

Journal of Political Economy, 1980
The paper investigates the Pareto efficiency of direct democracy and searches for the frequency with which the losing minority in referendum voting could compensate the majority and still be better off. A model is defined that permits the measuring of the intensity of preferences in a population, based on voting and abstention behavior. Using the model,
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Sortition, direct democracy and indirect democracy

2017
This chapter explores some of the complexity of sortition as a distinct political form by looking at its history, the qualities and effects of the lottery, the design of schemes involving sortition and its relation to modern forms of democracy and democratic values.
Oliver Dowlen, Gil Delannoi
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Consultants and Direct Democracy

PS: Political Science & Politics, 1998
Proponents of direct legislation maintain that the initiative and popular referendum empower ordinary citizens to set the agenda of politics. Some argue it shifts “ultimate authority from representatives in state legislatures, city councils, and even Congress to the people themselves” (Schmidt 1989, vii).
David B. Magleby, Kelly D. Patterson
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