Abstract
Direct democracy in Europe has developed a growing interest in recent years. This refers to all levels of governmental systems, the national level, the regional states in federal systems and the level of local politics. Since 2009, the Lisbon Treaty even provides the European Citizens' Initiative as an instrument of direct democracy for the level of European Union politics, and many referendums on accession to the European Union and on treaty amend¬ments referred to the European politics level (Szczerbiak 2005; Pichler 2009; Pichler/Kaufmann 2010).KeywordsLocal PoliticsGerman StateLocal CouncilDirect DemocracyLocal GovernanceThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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