For the Many or the Few : The Initiative, Public Policy, and American Democracy /

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Direct democracy is alive and well in the United States. Citizens are increasingly using initiatives and referendums to take the law into their own hands, overriding their elected officials to set tax, expenditure, and social policies. John G. Matsusaka's For the Many or the Few provides the fi...

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Autor principal: Matsusaka, John G. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2008]
Colección:American Politics and Political Economy Series
Temas:
POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
policies, political, government, america, united states, usa, democratic, academic, scholarly, research, higher education, citizen, referendum, action, activist, activisim, social studies, law, legal, election, official, tax, expenditure, history, historical, evidence, unbiased, wealth, special interest, influence, demographic, data, state, local.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • 1. An American Institution
  • 2. A Blizzard of Data
  • Part I. The Evidence
  • 3. Spending and Taxes, 1970-2000
  • 4. For the Many or the Few
  • 5. Conservative or Liberal
  • Part II. Explaining the Facts
  • 6. When Legislators Get Out of Step
  • 7. Key Episodes in the Twentieth Century
  • Part III. Open Questions
  • 8. Majority Tyranny and the Constitution
  • 9. Delegation, Information, and Competition
  • Appendix 1. Initiative Provisions in States, 1898-2003
  • Appendix 2. Initiative Provisions in the Twenty Largest Cities, 2000
  • Appendix 3. Data Definitions and Sources
  • Appendix 4. Critical Notes on the Empirical Literature
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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