Democratic Delusions Book

Oregon and California are heavy users of initiative process. He says that gathering signatures is a business, paid by the signature and asks question, if signatures are indication of public sentiment or merely a function of money? He points out that TV ads give less well-informed voters a rough idea and that elected officials and candidates hoping to increase their visibility, increase voter-turnout or help them raise money introduced more than one-third of the initiatives to California voters in the 1970s and 1980s.