initiative

Etymology
From, from , from , from , from.

Adjective

 * 1)  Serving to initiate.
 * 2)  In which voter initiatives can be brought to the ballot.
 * 3) * a. 2008, John G. Matsusaka, "Direct Democracy and the Executive Branch", in, 2008, Shaun Bowler and Amihai Glazer, editors, Direct Democracy's Impact on American Political Institutions,, ISBN 9780230604452, page 122 :
 * The second row shows that initiative states fill more constitutional offices by election than noninitiative states, and the difference is statistically significant after controlling for region and population.
 * 1)  In which voter initiatives can be brought to the ballot.
 * 2) * a. 2008, John G. Matsusaka, "Direct Democracy and the Executive Branch", in, 2008, Shaun Bowler and Amihai Glazer, editors, Direct Democracy's Impact on American Political Institutions,, ISBN 9780230604452, page 122 :
 * The second row shows that initiative states fill more constitutional offices by election than noninitiative states, and the difference is statistically significant after controlling for region and population.
 * 1) * a. 2008, John G. Matsusaka, "Direct Democracy and the Executive Branch", in, 2008, Shaun Bowler and Amihai Glazer, editors, Direct Democracy's Impact on American Political Institutions,, ISBN 9780230604452, page 122 :
 * The second row shows that initiative states fill more constitutional offices by election than noninitiative states, and the difference is statistically significant after controlling for region and population.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Hebrew: יוזם, התחלתי
 * Italian: ,
 * Portuguese: iniciativo,
 * Serbo-Croatian:

Noun

 * 1) A beginning; a first move.
 * 2) A new development; a fresh approach to something; a new way of dealing with a problem.
 * 3) The ability to act first or on one's own.
 * 4)  An issue to be voted on, brought to the ballot by a sufficient number of signatures from among the voting public.

Translations

 * Arabic: مُبَادَرَة
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bashkir: башланғыс
 * Belarusian: ініцыяты́ва, пачы́н
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Catalan:
 * Czech:
 * Danish: initiativ
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: יוזמה
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Kazakh: бастама
 * Malayalam: ,
 * Norwegian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Slovak: iniciatíva
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:
 * Ukrainian: ініціати́ва, почи́н
 * Yiddish: איניציאַטיוו


 * Arabic: مُبَادَرَة
 * Bashkir: башланғыс
 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: יוזמה
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Malayalam:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Yiddish: איניציאַטיוו


 * Arabic: مُبَادَرَة
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Finnish: aloitekyky, ,
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: יוזמה
 * Hungarian:, , vállalkozószellem
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Italian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Turkish:
 * Yiddish: איניציאַטיוו


 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * Hebrew: משאל עם ביוזמת האזרחים
 * Italian:


 * Italian:
 * Spanish:

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) initiative