Or maybe they decided to stick with it because it advances their own interest. How very convenient, to teach Ivy League graduates that Ancient Greece can be gen

Or maybe they decided to stick with it because it advances their own interest. How very convenient, to teach Ivy League graduates that Ancient Greece can be generalized but modern Switzerland or Iceland (or many U.S. States) are isolated, culturally unique, examples. :-) I haven't read a very good analysis of California yet. What I read about it looks like they got into the trouble because they have both representative and direct systems kind of checkmating each other. Would they prefer strictly one system over another, it wouldn't have happened. There are couple of other U.S. States with similar provisions for semi-direct democracy (which is actually a model I prefer, like in Switzerland), and they don't seem to have quite the same problems as California.