The People versus the Octopus: California Progressives and the Origins of Direct Democracy
Direct democracy, for better or for worse, has become California's most distinctive and emblematic political institution. Initiative, referendum, and recall elections were added to the state constitution in 1911 as part of Governor Hiram Johnson's “progressive” movement, which redeemed the...
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Siècles
2014
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