The guiding principle is that “direct democracy” – which also allows existing laws to be challenged through referendum, as ...

Direct democracy – or legislating through the ballot – has been baked into the Golden State’s political system for well over a century, allowing voters to legislate and amend the ...

For as long as we’ve had democracies, majority rule has left some in the minority worse off. We need to be talking about what ...

Many of the young people in our youth network are calling for reform of the political system in order to facilitate these ...

But this heavy-handed assault on direct democracy is not the answer. In 2024, a ballot initiative needed nearly 900,000 valid signatures to make the ballot. DeSantis’s scheme all but guarantees ...

A House committee gave its stamp of approval Wednesday to a bill that would enhance the Arkansas attorney general’s authority ...

We Liberal Democrats believe in strengthening local democracy, whether through the introduction of proportional representation to elect local councils or the transfer of powers away from ...

Leading experts in medicine and business are pinning their hopes on digital twins. Two economists have a bold proposal that ...

The guiding principle is that “direct democracy” – which also allows existing laws to be challenged through referendum, as seen with the carbon pipeline debate in 2024 – provides a check ...

Legislators have been more successful curtailing the process with statutory changes in Pierre. From 2018 to 2024, South ...