Issues 1977, 1981-1988 published in 2 vols: v. 1. Title/Subject -- v. 2. Agency.

"This work ... surveys the published adjudications, cases, decisions, findings, interpretations, opinions, orders, and rulings of state administrative agencies. ... [It] contains more than 3,200 records describing the published administrative codes, registers, decisions, and opinions of administrative agencies in the fifty states, the District of Colombia, American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Sources that contain decisions from multipple states are also included, as well as a small number of county and municipal agency decisions."--Introduction.

The referendum is not a monolithic method of national decision making. There are a multitude of referendum forms which exist under varying constitutional conditions and operate in different ways. A global comparison shows that more than half the constitutions of the world provide for the referendum at a national level, but referendums are also carried out without explicit constitutional support. Two main forms of referendum can be observed, the mandatory constitutional referendum and the policy vote. This book argues that the referendum does not undermine representative decision making, but supplements it in various ways: the referendum is not diametrically opposed to representative government, and when properly designed and used, the institution of the referendum can enhance the legitimacy of a constitutional and political system. This book is the first comprehensive constitutional and comparative analysis of the referendum. It offers illuminating and intriguing reading for all those interested in national decision making.