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The initiative effect.(Editorial)
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California History
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March 1, 2008
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- Fireman, Janet
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2008 California Historical Society. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Here in California, an argument might be made that the word initiative offers more options than in other states. Election time just about any year means that ballots are likely to be crammed with measures proposed by citizens who have invoked the initiative to deal with matters that the state legislature has purposefully ignored or set aside. Today as well as in days of yore, individuals or groups regularly and famously exercise extensive initiative in their self-reinventions, placing themselves in preemptive control or demanding attention to achieve certain ends--as in the case of union members striking during contract disputes, old-time land squatters, and industrial ...
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