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Re:Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters by bikamonki on Sunday June 05, 2016 @11:06AM (#11841337)
What do you mean by direct democracy? Is it a cultural trait or are you actually talking about a system that enforces/delivers direct democracy?
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Re:Basic income plan clearly rejected by Swiss voters by justifier on Sunday June 05, 2016 @01:32PM (#11842038)
Some superficial research will answer your question..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_democracy

But essentially a direct democracy is one where the people effect policy instead of electing representatives to do so on their behalf

http://direct-democracy.geschichte-schweiz.ch/

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