THE REFERENDUM
In: Parliamentary affairs: a journal of comparative politics
ISSN: 1460-2482
In: Parliamentary affairs: a journal of comparative politics
ISSN: 1460-2482
In: Australian quarterly: AQ, Band 16, Heft 4, S. 38
ISSN: 1837-1892
In: Public administration: the journal of the Australian regional groups of the Royal Institute of Public Administration, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 71-73
ISSN: 1467-8500
In: Public opinion quarterly: journal of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Band 14, S. 303-315
ISSN: 0033-362X
In: American political science review, Band 37, S. 491-504
ISSN: 0003-0554
In: American political science review, Band 37, Heft 3, S. 491-504
ISSN: 1537-5943
Direct legislation has returned to excite considerable interest after a quiet period of a few years in which the traditional legislative processes were allowed to operate undisturbed in the states and cities. Old age pension plans put before the voters by initiative petitions in Colorado, California, and Ohio have excited more inspection of direct legislation procedures than at any time in their history. Several studies have been made of the laws governing the initiative and referendum, and also of their operation in the states. No less significant than state-wide initiatives and referenda have been the anti-picketing and labor regulating initiatives in Los Angeles; ordinances in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Oakland, California, requiring two operators on street cars; attacks upon proportional representation in New York by petitions; attempts by labor organizations in Detroit to set policies regarding working conditions on the city's street railways by initiative ordinances; or the attempts by firemen and police in many cities to obtain civil service and pension systems through the same device. Several of these cities now have approximately thirty-five years of experience with municipal direct legislation.Numerous factors in American municipal politics have combined within the past fifty years to develop a sentiment for laying upon the electorate a portion of the responsibility for determining local policy. The idea that the voters of the municipality should be allowed, to decide certain policies was developed chiefly by the home rule movement.
In: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.35112204035499
"One of a series of monographs prepared . under the general coordination of the Governor's Committee on Preparatory Research for the New Jersey Constitutional Convention of 1947"--T.p. verso. ; "May 1947." ; Bibliography: p. 6. ; Mode of access: Internet.
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In: Parliamentary affairs: a journal of comparative politics
ISSN: 1460-2482
In: The round table: the Commonwealth journal of international affairs, Band 51, Heft 201, S. 83-87
ISSN: 1474-029X
In: The round table: the Commonwealth journal of international affairs, Band 42, Heft 165-168, S. 182-187
ISSN: 1474-029X
In: The round table: the Commonwealth journal of international affairs, Band 35, Heft 137, S. 76-83
ISSN: 1474-029X
In: Australian quarterly: AQ, Band 34, Heft 2, S. 74
ISSN: 1837-1892
In: Annuaire français de droit international, Band 1, S. 134-139
ISSN: 0066-3085
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In: Annuaire français de droit international, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 134-139