Democracy--how direct?: views from the founding era and the polling era

Preface / Elliott Abrams

1. Founders' Views of Direct Democracy and Representation / Charles R. Kesler

2. James Madison and the Spirit of 1787 / Gary Rosen

3. Lincoln's View of Direct Democracy and Public Opinion / Herman Belz

4. Beyond Referendum Democracy: Competing Conceptions of Public Opinion / James S. Fishkin

5. Polling and the Creation of a Virtual Public / Benjamin Ginsberg

Response: Refined and Enlarged Public Opinion / Benjamin I. Page

6. For the People: Direct Democracy in the State Constitutional Tradition / G. Alan Tarr

7. People Power: Initiative and Referendum in the United States / M. Dane Waters

8. Why Initiatives Are Necessary: Some Tales from California / Ron K. Unz.