Promoting the Movement
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Worldwide examples of Direct Democracy in action
Taiwan
“How Taiwan got one of the world's best direct democracy laws.” - 2018 Article by People2Power.
Estonia
How Estonia structures the voting portal (click English translation top left when on site webpage).
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- Read "A.V.Dicey – The Referendum as The People’s Veto" - by Mads Qvortrup.
Recommended Reading
- Democracy on Demand – Matt Qvortrup
- Let the People Rule – John Matsusaka
- Swiss Watching: Inside the Land of Milk & Money – Diccon Bewes
- Swiss Democracy in a Nutshell – Vincent Kucholl
- Propaganda – Edward Bernays
- An Open Elite? England 1540-1880 - Lawrence Stone & Jeanne C. Fawtier Stone
- Foundations of the American Century – Inderjeet Parmar
- The Corporate Rich and the Power Elite in the Twentieth Century – G. William Domhoff
- Wealth and Power in America – Gabriel Kolko
- Superhubs: How the Financial Elite & Their Networks Rule Our World – Sandra Navidi
- Direct Democracy Today – Simon Gregory
Direct Democracy features in the Politics in Pubs website. "On Tuesday 23rd June 2026 (the tenth anniversary of the EU Referendum), Politics in Pubs met to discuss the Direct Democracy Movement. We were delighted to welcome guest speaker Neil Petrie, author and former intelligence officer, to introduce this topic and lead the discussion." Click the logo below to read the report and the in-depth question and answer session.
People in the UK are now ready to reject the government’s hard power control tactics as a means of governing the country. The UK’s Government hasn’t been considering the views of its people, which they are meant to represent, for a very long time, most recently proven throughout the Covid-19 crisis.
Experience has shown that democracy is enhanced when the electorate is directly involved in making policy decisions, inputting, learning and self-correcting as they go. Referendums and Initiatives allow voters to address matters that the parties might prefer not to, often out of self-interest or to avoid “controversy”.
Neil Petrie has written a "seminal work attacking the self-interested elites driving globalisation, controlling representative democracies, and manipulating peoples around the world". Below we offer his book as an audiobook.
A growing number of nations and localities recognise the benefits that voters bring to their policy-making process and have adopted direct democracy. In general, they retain the existing representative system to “manage” day-to-day matters, but also use three tried, tested and simple voting tools to top-up the half-full democracy tank. These are:
