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

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

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

An updated third edition of this authoriative analysis of Swiss democracy, the institutions of federalism, and consensus democracy through political power shari

How referendums can diffuse populist tensions by putting power back into the hands of the people Propelled by the belief that government has slipped out of the