University of Zurich

We've reached the final hours of this global conference of journalists, academics and others interested in gobal direct democracy. Today has focused on the European Union, a subject so mind-numbing that this American can't wait to get home and watch some playoff baseball.

One great statistic came out of today's talks, courtesy of Gabriela Felder, a University of Zurich political scientist: an 80-year-old Swiss man, living his life in Zurich, will have voted on 1,800 referenda and initiatives in his lifetime.