▪ Abstract Until recently, direct democracy scholarship was primarily descriptive or
normative. Much of it sought to highlight the processes' shortcomings. We describe new …

The birth of democracies owes much to the interventions and mobilizations of ordinary
people. Yet many feel as though they have inherited democratic institutions which do not …

Challenging the common assumption that models of direct democracy and representative
democracy are necessarily at odds, Direct Democracy Worldwide demonstrates how …

Direct Democratic Choice sets out to understand how the citizens actually decide in direct-
democratic votes. Author Hanspeter Kriesi has analyzed nearly twenty years of post-election …

Originally, political efficac it was measured with four have any say about what politics and
government really understand what's g that people like me can hav (VOTING), and(4)" I don't …

Theorists such as Carole Pateman and Benjamin Barber suggest that democratic
participation will engage citizens and lead them to have more positive regard for political …

Standing out from all other books on direct democracy, Citizenship and Contemporary Direct
Democracy connects the study of direct democracy to the broader field of comparative …

" This body of research not only passes academic muster but is the best guidepost in
existence for activists who are trying to use the ballot initiative process for larger policy and …

Political scientists are increasingly turning to direct democracy, as practiced in the American
states, to investigate a broad range of questions dealing with median voter preferences and …

Political efficacy is addressed within the framework of social cognitive theory and a new
measure to assess perceived political self‐efficacy is presented. Three studies document the …