June 12, 2012

WYPR Radio’s Midday Show on Maryland’s evolving system of citizen referendums and voting Baltimore Sun columnist and Midday host Dan Rodricks moderates an hourlong discussion on the pros and cons of online referendum petitioning and online voting with iSolon.org...

March 11, 2012

Here’s why Maryland politicos must convene a constitutional convention The print edition of the Washington Examiner publishes J.H. Snider’s commentary observing that, when the issue involves a “political question,” Maryland has one standard for...

February 12, 2012

It will take a con-con to untangle Maryland’s gerrymanders The Washington Post publishes J.H. Snider’s commentary arguing that the Maryland General Assembly has a conflict of interest in solving the gerrymander problem, which is the type of democratic reform problem...

January 19, 2012

State ignores voters on constitutional convention; Majority voted in favor of con-con in 2010, yet it hasn’t been convened The Baltimore Sun publishes J.H. Snider’s commentary arguing that the refusal of Maryland’s Governor and General Assembly to convene the con-con...

December 8, 2011

Government-wide Information Sharing for Democratic Accountability The Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution publishes J.H. Snider’s paper on why the politics of using unique identifiers to track powerful political players across...

October 20, 2011

What Is the Democratic Function of the White House’s We The People Petition Website? J.H. Snider’s Huffington Post article critiquing the October 18, 2011 front page article in the Wall Street Journal, which is bereft of understanding the democratic purposes of a...