1. Other reasons for the United Kingdom’s non-use of devices of direct democracy range include an adherence to the Burkean tradition of representative democracy — see Balsom, D. in Gallagher and Uleri (eds), The Referendum Experience in Europe (Macmillan, 1996) and the absence of the sort of challenge to representative democracy led by the Populists in the USA of the 1890s and Progressives thereafter — see
2. E. Gerber (1999) The Populist Paradox (Princeton University Press).
3. See L. Maer Citizens’ Initiatives, House of Commons Library Standard Note, SN/PC/04483 (2008).
4. See M. Qyortrup (2002) A Comparative Study of Referendums: Government by the People (Manchester University Press), chapter 2; and V. Bogdanor (1985) ‘Dicey and the Reform of the Constitution’, [1985] Public Law, 652.
5. See Leyland, P. (2007) The Constitution of the United Kingdom: A Contextual Analysis (Hart).