Despite numerous theoretical studies, practical implementation of congestion pricing is
limited mainly due to the low public acceptance. Existing studies in this respect generally …

Public choice theory takes citizens as rationally ignorantabout political issues, because the
costs of being informedgreatly exceed the utility individuals derive from it. Thecosts of …

Direct Democratic Choice sets out to understand how the citizens actually decide in direct-
democratic votes. Author Hanspeter Kriesi has analyzed nearly twenty years of post-election …

Standing out from all other books on direct democracy, Citizenship and Contemporary Direct
Democracy connects the study of direct democracy to the broader field of comparative …

One of the criticisms often levelled against direct democracy is that citizens lack sufficient
knowledge to vote directly on policy issues. The 'No'votes in the French and Dutch …

Roads congestion pricing has been considered as an effective solution following the
successful implementation of such programs by many cities such as Singapore, Stockholm …

En este artículo se analiza si los mecanismos de democracia directa, cuando son iniciados
por el poder ejecutivo, tienden sistemáticamente a favorecer a este o si la ciudadanía …

Previous research is unclear about who supports the use of referendums and why. One line
of research suggests that people with greater cognitive resources are more supportive of …

When popular referendums fail to ratify new international agreements or succeed in
reversing existing ones, it not only affects domestic voters but also creates negative …

Why have referendums on European integration proliferated since the 1970s? How are
referendums accommodated within member states' constitutional orders and with what …