Citizens’ Initiative Review – Healthy Democracy: Healthy Democracy is a US-based nonpartisan nonprofit that designs and coordinates innovative deliberative democracy programs.  They are an early leader in the Citizens’ Initiative Review process, helping to carry out CIRs in several US states and abroad.  This page has information regarding the process and history of the CIR.

Citizens’ Initiative Review Research Project | Investigating a method for making initiative elections more deliberative (psu.edu): Citizens’ Initiative Review Research Project main page that contains a wealth of information and publications regarding the need for, effectiveness and history of, and best practices for CIRs.

Publications | Citizens’ Initiative Review Research Project (psu.edu): This page contains a list of reports published on the CIR process including an overview entitled: Assessment of Three 2018 Citizens’ Initiative Review Pilot Projects (2019).  These publications provide data which support the benefits of CIRs.

Hope for Democracy: How Citizens Can Bring Reason Back into Politics by Gastil, John, Knobloch, Katherine. This book showcases the CIR and reveals how this process has helped voters better understand the policy issues placed on their ballots. Placed in the larger context of deliberative democratic reforms, Hope for Democracy shows how citizens and public officials can work together to bring more rationality and empathy into modern politics.

DLW – Hope for Democracy: How an election reform you’ve never heard of gives voters more power with Citizen Initiative Review – Zoom: This is a video of Dr. John Gastil’s  presentation on CIR during Democracy Lobby Week 2021

Videos for testimony for the CIR bill from 2015, HB 1364. The bill was heard in the House Committee on State Government on Jan. 28, 2015. The discussion of the bill begins at the 50 minute mark in the video: Watch – TVW, Washington States’ Public Affairs Network.