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Direct Democracy and Institutional Realignment in the American States
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Direct Democracy and Institutional Realignment in the American States

CAROLINE J TOLBERT
Political science quarterly, Vol.118(3), pp.467-489
09/2003
DOI: 10.1002/j.1538-165X.2003.tb00402.x

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Abstract

Draws a parallel between the Progressive era and the last two decades of the twentieth century to look at the role of direct democracy in American political reform. She argues that ballot issues at the state level may function as an adaptive mechanism, realigning institutions of representative government to new social and economic functions

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