California Marijuana Initiative Lead Narrows, Poll Finds

September 4, 2010

We visited the HQ of the Yes campaign as part of our pre-conference tour before attending the Global Forum on IR in San Francisco this summer

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Swiss referendum shows Gordon Brown the way

February 12, 2009

In the week that Gordon Brown found his injudiciuos phrase ” British jobs for British workers” come back to haunt him, the Swiss were quietly using a referendum to      deal   with same problem in a much more constructive way. They held a referendum on an economic treaty with the EU. The clause about free access for foreign workers was controversial but patient argument about its necessity won the day. A sequence of opinion polls show public opinion coming round to support the treaty and this clause.

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Nigel Smith in EcuadorIn Ecuador in 2008 just after their referendum said YES to a new constitution.

After a lifetime in business, I chaired the YES campaign in the 1997 referendum creating the Scottish Parliament an experience that led to other referendums.

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