Citizen Lawmakers: The Ballot Initiative Revolution

by Harry C. Boyte, David D. Schmidt

Presents the stories of the individual activists and political groups that revitalized this use of Initiative and Referendum.

345 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Harry Boyte is founder and co-director of the Institute's Center for Democracy and Citizenship, and founder of Public Achievement, a theory-based practice of citizen organizing to do public work for the common good which is being used in schools, universities and communities across the United States and in more than a dozen countries.

He has worked with a variety of foundations, nonprofit, educational, neighborhood and citizen organizations concerned with community development, citizenship education, and civic renewal. In the 1960s, Boyte worked for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as a field secretary with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in the southern civil rights movement.