As we all know, today even Greece has given up the direct democracy its ancestors invented. In fact the ancient Athens’ Ecclesia-style democracy can’t be found anywhere in the world.

A new study by Prof. Yacov Tsur from the Department of Environmental Economics and Management at the Hebrew University of ...

Efforts to resist the proposals would mark a continuation of Republican attempts to curtail direct democracy in Missouri as ...

I was recently forced to move from my home due to rent control. Voters in California, Oregon and elsewhere used direct democracy to reject several bad ideas while adopting sensible reforms. Miracle of ...

Not surprisingly, democracy is a very popular idea. A Pew Research Center survey of people in 24 nations in 2023 revealed that 70% of people support direct democracy, with the percentage rising to 77% ...

Machine politics vs. direct democracy That climate regime might fall in November, or it might not, and the same is true for all of the other initiatives. Early polling had Washington voters ...

Direct democracy is my bag — for two decades I’ve led a global forum on the subject. Not that this knowledge helps, when it comes to California. Direct democracy around the world often allows ...

But the Swiss use a system called ‘direct democracy’, which gives people the right to vote on key policy issues in open referendums, often up to four times a year. “You’re asked to vote about anything ...

But the push to bring direct democracy back to Washington after a long hiatus had already scored three big wins before a single ballot was cast. Heywood’s group Let’s Go Washington began most ...

Read more: Swiss canton wants to test collection of electronic signatures for initiatives This content was published on Sep 26, 2024 Like the United States, Swiss direct democracy is vulnerable to ...

Kimsey described the suspected arson as “a direct attack on democracy.” Drop boxes have been used for years in states such as ...