Volume 78, No. 4 of the University of Colorado Law Review has a symposium on the Colorado Initiative process, with the following contributions (the issue does not yet appear online at the law review’s website):
# THE VOICE OF THE CROWD–COLORADO’S INITIATIVE
# Foreword
Richard B. Collins
p.1337
# Ennobling Direct Democracy
Sherman J. Clark
p.1341
# The Educative Effects of Direct Democracy: A Research Primer for Legal Scholars
Daniel A. Smith, Caroline J. Tolbert, & Daniel C. Bowen
p.1371
# Representation and the Spatial Bias of Direct Democracy
Daniel A. Smith
p.1395
# When Good Voters Make Bad Policies: Assessing and Improving the Deliberative Quality of Initiative Elections
John Gastil, Justin Reedy, & Chris Wells
p.1435
# The Citizen Assembly: An Alternative to the Initiative
Kevin O’Leary
p.1489
# Initiatives, Referenda, and the Problem of Democratic Inclusion: A Reply to John Gastil and Kevin O’Leary
Michaele L. Ferguson