Most recent publications
We are constantly working on strengthening direct democracy all over the world. We publish reports to monitor concrete referenda held in different countries. Also we issue papers to present our position on actual (direct) democracy issues around the globe. Here you find our most recent publications in chronological order. They are also sorted by type: monitoring reports and position papers
Direct democracy has emerged in discussions on political and institutional reform in Ireland. Donal O'Brolchain looked back into the history of the Irish constitution and makes a case for introducing the citizens' initiative.
In his article, Nijeboer argues that the attractive features of Liquid Democracy (LD) are already incorporated in modern direct democracy systems in the form of initiative and referendum but LD has also some clear weaknesses.
Paper A. Nijeboer: Liquid Democracy (200.01 Ko)
This briefing contains 2 essays. The first one focus on the progress made by the ECI. The second one feautures the initiative "Right2Water", the first ECI that gathered the one million required signatures.
After the big financial crisis, Iceland has the potential to reinvent itself. A total revision of the national constitution has been launched and a first draft presented in July 2011. All these elements were good reasons to visit Iceland.
Position Paper: The case of Iceland (126.16 Ko)In this paper Antonios Bouchagiar and Mihalis Gousgounis, both lawyers register in Brussels, describe from a historical and legal perspective the forms of direct democracy which have been limited to national referenda in Greece.
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