We study how the number of ballot propositions affects the quality of decision making in direct democracy, as reflected … in citizens' knowledge, voting behavior, and attitudes toward democracy. Using three comprehensive data sets from … Switzerland with over 3,500 propositions, we exploit variation in the number of federal and cantonal propositions. Voters know the …

We combine community-level outcomes of 27 votes about immigration issues in Switzerland with census data to estimate …

This study investigates the relationship between economic growth and democracy by estimating a nation's production … shifters model enabled this study to find possible known channels between economic growth and democracy. Empirical results … based on a panel data of 144 countries observed for 1980-2014 show that democracy had a robust positive impact on economic …

Switzerland. Using a novel dataset that links official census data on adult education to longitudinal register data on labor …

measured based on citizens' actual voting behavior in national referendums in Switzerland between 1987 and 2017. We exploit the …

rain and analyze data on more than 400 ballot propositions in Switzerland for the years 1958 to 2014 to address this …

of voters. In 1993, New Zealand had a binding electoral referendum on the same day as the general election where voters …

In December 2016, in the middle of the "European refugee crisis", the Italian electorate voted for a referendum on … in the case of Brexit, the referendum was largely perceived as an assessment of the Prime Minister's work and the … increased (1) the referendum turnout and (2) the proportion of anti-government votes. This evidence is consistent with the fact …