1995 a state-wide referendum introduced the possibility to initiate direct democratic legislation into the local government … activity measured by the number of initiatives and the ease with which direct democratic legislation can be implemented …

's spending decisions through initiatives and referenda constrains government size. But what happens if budgetary matters are … reforms of the mid-1990s, which granted voters wide opportunities to initiate referenda on local issues, but neither the right …, nor the responsibility of voting on the implied costs of these initiatives. By exploiting a novel dataset containing …

individual voting behavior, we develop a novel measure of proposition complexity (using official pre-referendum booklets) and … combine it with post-referendum survey data from Switzerland. Using Heckman selection estimations to account for endogenous …

referenda activity and fiscal performance by using a new dataset containing information on all 2500 voter initiatives between …This paper exploits the introduction of the right of referenda at the local level in the German state of Bavaria in … referenda to implement a regression discontinuity design (RDD). To safeguard against co-treatments that might affect fiscal …

alternatives among which the policy is to be chosen. Two extensions, referenda and the possibility of re-election, are briefly …

opinions of the oligarchs but sometimes, there is a referendum (i.e., everyone's opinions are collected). We show that in …

referenda activity and fiscal performance by using a new dataset containing information on all 2500 voter initiatives between …This paper exploits the introduction of the right of referenda at the local level in the German state of Bavaria in … referenda to implement a regression discontinuity design (RDD). To safeguard against co-treatments that might affect fiscal …

1995 a state-wide referendum introduced the possibility to initiate direct democratic legislation into the local government … activity measured by the number of initiatives and the ease with which direct democratic legislation can be implemented …