Institutional Openness and the Use of Re
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Iwan Barankay; Pascal Sciarini; Alexander H. Trechsel
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Article
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2003
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Swiss Political Science Association
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German
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Despite the growing interest in direct democratic institutionsβlike referendums and popular initiativesβthe empirical evidence on the relationship between institutional openness and use is still sparse. We use a novel data set on the institutional openness and test its link to actual voting behaviou