Demanding Choices: Opinion, Voting, and Direct Democracy

by Shaun Bowler and Todd Andrew Donovan

Referenda on important public policy questions have come to play a central role in policy making in many states. Referenda, or ballot propositions, have resulted in limits on taxation and limits on the number of terms of elected officials, and have dealt with bilingual education, campaign finances, and affirmative action, in states all over the country.
Shaun Bowler and Todd Donovan present a searching and original examination of how voters make...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472087150
• ISBN13: 9780472087150
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"