In the wildlife policy arena, ballot initiatives
have been used increasingly over the past two
decades to wrest control of policy from legislators
and bureaucrats. This trend has led to dramatic
changes in policy as professionals are forced to
adapt to changing political winds and accept the
growing role of the public in setting policy. This
book examines the effectiveness of a model of policy
change developed in the early 1990s by two political
scientists, Frank R. Baumgartner and Bryan D. Jones,
to explain how the growing use of ballot initiatives
has had a dramatic effect on...