00838pab a2200157 454500 180718b2001 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Scarrow, Susan E. Direct democracy and institutional change: a comparative investigation 2001 p.651-65 Aug Is direct democracy on the rise around the world? Previous efforts to answer this question have investigated paterns of referendum usage and have found only small and isolated increases. In contrast, the current study focuses on patterns of institutional change and finds a broad movement to redesign institutions in ways that give citizens more opportunities to exercise direct control over political decision making. - Reproduced Democracy Comparative Political Studies 50004 50004 50004 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 34, Issue no: 6 AR50432 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR