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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>Does the Citizen Initiative Weaken Party Government in the U.S. States?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Progressive reformers first championed adoption of the citizen initiative and other direct democracy institutions, a major reason was to limit the ability of political parties to pursue extreme policies. In the absence of direct democracy, political parties might not have much reason to promote moderate policies. Republican legislators would generally prefer policies to the [...]]]></description>
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