If every one of those bills were, in fact, constitutional and were upheld, you couldn't do this process at all,” attorney ...

Kansas lawmakers talk a good game about letting the citizens decide, but only if they get to choose the topic and the timing.

Research shows that states that have a dominant party in office for awhile, efforts to make citizen led initiatives harder ...

SB586, the Protect Our Constitution Act, would all but obliterate any chance for the people of Arkansas to pass ...

Many states provide for direct, or pure, democracy with citizen-initiated ballot measures for new laws and/or vetoes through ...

Attorney General Tim Griffin rejected a proposed ballot measure to amend the state's direct democracy process, saying it was ...

The Arkansas Attorney General's Office rejected on Tuesday proposed ballot language for a constitutional amendment to ...

CIVICUS discusses recent protests in Serbia with Alma Mustajbašić, researcher at Civic Initiatives, a Serbian civil society organisation that advocates for democracy, human rights and citizen ...

The administrator’s actions are a direct insult to the sacrifices of our heroes who laboured hard for our democracy.”He made ...

LAURA GAMBOA is Assistant Professor of Democracy and Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame and the author of ...

The SAVE Act solves nothing to improve election security, but it would hurt and silence millions of law-abiding citizens.