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		<title>Delegating Direct Democracy: Interparty Legislative Competition and the Adoption of the Initiative in the American States</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, voters in 24 states can make policy directly through the initiative process. In most of these states, the initiative process was first adopted between 1898 and 1918. Smith and Fridkin seek to explain why only these states, and not others, adopted the initiative. Previous Work Because most of the states that adopted the initiative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Formal Model of Learning and Policy Diffusion</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Those who advocate federalism argue that devolution improves policy outcomes nationwide by providing opportunities for local experimentation. In the words of Louis Brandeis, justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1932): It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous state may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; [...]]]></description>
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