Educated by initiative : the effects of direct democracy on citizens and political organizations in the American states /
Educated by Initiative moves beyond previous evaluations of public policy to emphasize the educational importance of the initiative process itself. Since a majority of ballots ultimately fail or get overturned by the courts, Smith and Tolbert suggest that the educational consequences of initiative v...
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
©2004.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3998/mpub.11467 |
Table of Contents:
- The Progressive Era vision : instrumental and educative justifications of direct democracy
- The education of citizens : voting
- The education of citizens : civic engagement
- The education of citizens : confidence in government
- The education of special interests
- The education of political parties
- The educative possibilities and limitations of citizen lawmaking.