I have no data to support the following, this is purely my point of view versus yours. I would be really curious about seeing the popularity of ballot initiatives among citizens in different US states, and how they would react if there was a possibility to withdraw this civic right. I believe you are projecting your own point of view here, go in California, in Oregon, in N&S Dakota, in Washington, in Colorado, in Maine and Massachusetts, and you may find that most people have a higher trust in the process of ballot initiatives than in their legislatures.
In Switzerland there’s a lot of discussion about changing this or that part of the political system, but I’ve never seen someone advocating for getting rid of referenda. There’s something about the concept that people tend to like, irrespective of whether it works well or not.
I have no data to support the following, this is purely my point of view versus yours. I would be really curious about seeing the popularity of ballot initiatives among citizens in different US states, and how they would react if there was a possibility to withdraw this civic right. I believe you are projecting your own point of view here, go in California, in Oregon, in N&S Dakota, in Washington, in Colorado, in Maine and Massachusetts, and you may find that most people have a higher trust in the process of ballot initiatives than in their legislatures.
In Switzerland there’s a lot of discussion about changing this or that part of the political system, but I’ve never seen someone advocating for getting rid of referenda. There’s something about the concept that people tend to like, irrespective of whether it works well or not.