A divided House committee on Monday advanced two bills to regulate how signatures are gathered in Arkansas for citizen-led ...

The guiding principle is that “direct democracy” – which also allows existing laws to be challenged through referendum, as ...

Amid angry European reactions to US Vice President JD Vance's combative speech in Munich, Switzerland's president said on ...

Arkansas's motto is Regnat Populus — the People Rule. If Sen. Hammer’s bills become law, the people could only rule if they ...

Small communities can practise direct democracy: people meet and decide, or vote, on decisions concerning them all. In large ...

But this heavy-handed assault on direct democracy is not the answer. In 2024, a ballot initiative needed nearly 900,000 valid signatures to make the ballot. DeSantis’s scheme all but guarantees ...

Read more: Digital citizens could shake up democracy in Switzerland and beyond ... The wave of disinformation is expected to particularly affect direct democracies such as Switzerland or many ...

This content was published on Sep 26, 2024 Like the United States, Swiss direct democracy is vulnerable to the same disinformation tactics that threaten voters around the world. Read more: US ...

Ballot Measure Battle Could Curtail South Dakota's Direct Democracy Has South Dakota soured on direct democracy? The answer to that question will be partly answered during the 2025 legislative ...

“It was a plea for direct democracy. One could read it that way,” said the president of Switzerland, a country renowned for its frequent recourse to referendums. Vance told the Munich ...

The guiding principle is that “direct democracy” – which also allows existing laws to be challenged through referendum, as seen with the carbon pipeline debate in 2024 – provides a check ...

Legislators have been more successful curtailing the process with statutory changes in Pierre. From 2018 to 2024, South ...