Popular support for direct democracy

Party Politics

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 671-688

  Donovan, Todd ^a   Karp, Jeffrey A ^b  

^a WESTERN WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Amory Building ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Direct democracy; Initiative; Public opinion; Referendum

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747590763     PISSN: 13540688     EISSN: 14603683     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1354068806066793     Document Type: Article

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