Ballot Initiative Democracy in California

What the California initiative process produces and what the libertarian assessment is

The Process

The California ballot initiative process -- the direct democracy mechanism that allows citizens to place legislation and constitutional amendments directly on the ballot through the petition process -- has produced the specific mix of libertarian victories and libertarian defeats that the wide-open direct democracy process tends to produce.

The Assessment

The libertarian assessment of the initiative process: the process has produced genuine expansions of individual liberty in California -- the decriminalisation of marijuana, the Proposition 13 property tax limits -- and genuine restrictions on individual liberty -- the housing regulations, the campaign finance restrictions -- reflecting the specific ideological composition of the California electorate that uses the process.

Surf Revolt Coverage

Surf Revolt covers California ballot initiatives because the direct democracy process is the libertarian mechanism that most directly reflects what the California electorate values, and because the accountability journalism of direct democracy requires examining what the process produces.

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