Demanding choices opinion, voting, and direct democracy
Referenda on important public policy questions have come to play a central role in policy making in many states. Referenda, or ballot propositions, have resulted in limits on taxation and limits on the number of terms of elected officials, and have dealt with bilingual education, campaign finances,...
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press
c1998
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- The history of direct democracy : a critique of voter competence
- Reasoning voters : sorting through the demands of direct democracy
- Responding to demands : information, abstention, and just saying "no"
- Economic conditions and voting on ballot propositions
- Private interests and instrumental voting
- Voter response to the initiative logroll and the counterproposition
- Partisan interests and campaign information : support for term limits
- How campaign spending affects voter awareness and opinions of initiatives
- Conclusions about voter reasoning in direct democracy
- Appendix A: coding of variables on private interests and voting behavior.
