Bypassing the legislature: how direct democracy affects substantive and symbolic representation
This dissertation demonstrates that the presence of the initiative process alters voting behavior in the selection of candidates. By allowing constituents to bypass their elected officials to directly select policy, the availability of the initiative leads to substitution between voters' concer...
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University of Iowa
2010
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| Online Access: | https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/732 https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1917&context=etd |