adequate, context-sensitive measures. • Connect measures to address fragility with democracy protection and the … fragility, democracy support and efforts to protect human rights must be better connected. This also implies doing 'no harm to … democracy' (Leininger, 2023, p. 2). • Identify conditions under which state-building can (or cannot) be pursued: It would …

First, the institutions of direct democracy, referendum and initiative, are described. One of the main arguments … the interests of the citizens. Thus, the results of empirical studies investigating the effects of direct democracy are … Germany) against direct democracy as well as the possibilities resulting from the new electronic media …