Taking Back California's Direct Democracy from Special Interests
Category: WORLDPOST
Together, these reforms will improve the quality of our initiatives and our direct participation. They create what in political science circles is known as an "indirect initiative effect" -- a role for the legislature to foster public comment and active debate, to highlight errors and unintended consequences and fix them, and perhaps to craft policy solutions via legislation.
By Nicolas Berggruen and Darrell Steinberg, Contributors, 2014-12-02