The proposal at the center of the legal battle would make it virtually impossible for most citizen-led ballot measures to ...

After a couple of decades of running startups, Australian entrepreneur Adam Jacoby began to think about a new challenge: democracy. Could politics become fairer and more inclusive if he thought about ...

As Americans watch the Brexit-related political turmoil in the United Kingdom, it is important to remember that the chaos there began in a form of direct democracy. When U.K. voters set in motion ...

Progressive issues are winning at the ballot level in states controlled by conservatives. And it’s been happening steadily since 2016. In response, conservative legislators have significantly ...

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California has a solution for America’s putrid populism and political paralysis: adopting direct democracy at the national level. Allowing Americans to vote, by referendum, on the biggest issues ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Jeffrey Rosen and philanthropist David Rubenstein discussed how James Madison and the framers of the Constitution were wary of populism and direct ...

Don't just take it from me; take it from the Framers and other early American statesmen: "Democracy" has long included representative democracy as well as direct democracy, and "Republic" was used to ...

The powers of direct democracy — initiative, referendum and recall — are powerful tools to control slow-moving or corrupt politicians. These powers are enshrined in the California Constitution for ...

In August 2022, a statewide referendum in Kansas saw citizens overwhelmingly reject a plan to insert anti-abortion language into the state’s constitution. It comes as a slew of similar votes on ...

Shown is an undated portrait of Fr. Robert Haire, a socialist Catholic priest and influential direct democracy advocate who lived in Aberdeen, S.D., in the late 1800s and early 1900s. South Dakota ...