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Recent Scholarship
Competing Mobility Needs: The Users, Actors, and Discourses in Atlanta, Georgia
: Paget-Seekings, Laurel (Transport Policy), 2013
Highlights
: Looks at the implications of increasing use of sales tax referendums to fund transportation in the U.S. on state policy processes
Does the Citizen Initiative Weaken Party Government in the U.S. States?
: Phillips, Justin H. (State Politics and Policy Quarterly), 2008
Highlights
: "Examines whether direct democracy alters the ability of partisan legislative majorities and governors to shape the size of the US state public sector
Is Spending More Potent for or Against a Proposition
: Stratmann, Thomas (American Journal of Political Science), 2006
Highlights
: Examines the effect of campaigning on the success of initiatives and referenda