In the United States and Europe, there is growing uncertainty about how to counter Putin’s aggression without stoking a ...

Measure 2 would make significant changes to North Dakota's initiated measure process. Columnist Ellie Shockley and Sen. Janne ...

Courts in Utah and Michigan recently blocked legislative assaults on the ballot initiative process.

Cross-contextual learning has long been a vital tool for innovation. The pro-democracy field is no different, and a specific group of innovators are especially primed for and in need of cross-border ...

To build evolving, inclusive, effective democracies, we must focus not only on developing leaders who are reflective of the nation-state but who can also change the conditions in which they operate.

Democracy fails when it relies on an uninformed electorate and media rife with misinformation. Steps must be taken to address ...

Direct democracy – or legislating through the ballot – has been baked into the Golden State’s political system for well over ...

For example, he mentions the Swiss system of direct democracy but then dismisses it as difficult to adopt. As a Guyanese born and largely raised in Switzerland, I have ample experience with Swiss ...

Direct democracy through state ballot initiatives, initiated by both citizens and legislatures, holds potential for policy change relating to a large array of important social issues, including ...

Democracy’s auto-immune disease How and why is this happening ... the setting-up of millions of personal bank accounts, “direct benefit transfers” of money, and promises of toilets and piped drinking ...

Gershon Baskin, welcome back to Democracy Now! Why don’t you lay ... One is that there’s no replacement to a direct, secret back channel with direct communication between the parties.

The allegation that malfeasance that could have skewed results in Swiss elections has jolted Switzerland’s vaunted system of direct democracy, where mail-in balloting is the main way that voters ...