Direct democracy involves citizens in discussion and decisions about what the government is to do, rather than leaving this to officials or parliaments. It thus

How referendums can diffuse populist tensions by putting power back into the hands of the people Propelled by the belief that government has slipped out of the

This book represents the first comprehensive study of how technocracy currently challenges representative democracy and asks how technocratic politics undermine

Winner of a 2018 C. L. R. James Award for a Published Book for Academic or General Audiences from the Working-Class Studies Association Beginning with the Haiti

Offers a comparative study of the origins, performance, and reform of contemporary mechanisms of direct democracy.