Links

Many citizens fought - and still fight - to increase the decision-making capacity of the people.

These links, which do not pretend to be exhaustive, will redirect you to national pages of reference and will allow you to discover the situation at an international level.

Switzerland

• Elections and voting for the federal Chancellery, in particular with all the initiatives on the stage of the collecting of signatures, the explanation of the federal initiative, and the systematic collection of the federal right (of which is the Swiss Constitution).
  
• The pages of the cantons - cantonal initiatives are normally available on the sites of your canton, e.g. http://www.ge.ch/ for Geneva.
• The C2D - Research Centre on Direct Democracy (in English) and their page of links, very exhaustive!
• www.swisspolitics.org - an excellent site on the basis and news of Swiss politics
• www.smartvote.ch - not exactly about direct democracy, but an excellent site to know who to vote for
  

• The Initiative & Referendum Institute Europe
• Initiative & Referendum Institute At the University of Southern California
• ACE - the Electoral Knowledge Network
  
• The excellent page of M. Kolar, with many international links

• www.translationsforprogress.org