books.google.com - Devices such as initiatives, referendums, and other types of direct votes have increased in use throughout the world over the past two decades. Switzerland utilizes referendums as an integral part of its process of government, and Australia and Ireland use them to effect constitutional changes. Initiative...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_politics_of_direct_democracy.html?id=bawKFKxDFZoC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe politics of direct democracy
