Stories - Direct Democracy

Podcast Rules of the Game

PODCAST: Let the People Rule

US Midterms: Abortion and direct democracy on the ballot

On November 8, around 170 million United States (US) voters were called to the polls for the midterm...

Direct democracy is back in the 21st century

The book entitled Direct democracies has just been published in French following several others is situated...

Rules of the Game - Podcast

PODCAST: Chile's New Constitution with Gabriel Negretto

Ballot Measures about Ballot Measures

A report on three ballot measures challenging the citizen initiative amendment process in the 2020 US...

That's a wrap - Looking back on the first Online Forum on Modern Direct Democracy

From 21-29 September of this year, the world's largest gathering of direct democracy activists and experts...

New in the community: Climate Assembly

We are thrilled to introduce the newest member of our International Democracy Community. Climate Assembly is...

Don't fear the voter

John Matsusaka is Charles F. Sexton Chair in American Enterprise in the Marshall School of Business and the...

The ruins of the Panguna mine (Photo courtesy of Madlemurs (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/)

Papua New Guinea

Inching towards Independence: a bumpy road ahead for Bougainville

In last November’s referendum, with a turnout of 87,4 per cent, a staggering 97,7 per cent of Bougainvillean...

A world caught between protest and ballot

Never before have so many people around the globe taken part in popular votes as in 2019. Yet never before...