This book aims to provide a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of direct democratic institutions and devices as they have developed both in the thinking of modern

Do we have a system of "too much democracy?" Has the rise of ballot measures in the United States somehow assaulted the practice of democracy across the nation?

Offers a comparative study of the origins, performance, and reform of contemporary mechanisms of direct democracy.

"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