From gay marriage to taxation to environmental issues, many of our nation's most important
policy issues are decided by voters through ballot questions. Conventional wisdom holds …

On September 14, 2012, the University of California, Irvine School of Law, the UC Irvine Law
Review, and the University of California, Irvine Center for the Study of Democracy sponsored …

This chapter has two main parts. First, it starts with a short presentation of the well-
established theorem of the uninformed voter, and argues that local direct democracy inhibits …

This dissertation confronts several important questions about the institutional regulation of
elections at the intersection of law and political science. I begin by showing how recent …

The brainchild of early twentieth-century Progressives, the ballot initiative was supposed to
enable ordinary citizens to wrest control of lawmaking from elected officials whom the …