Cooperation vs Initiative - What's the difference?
cooperation | initiative |
(usually, uncountable) The act of cooperating.
Active help from a person, organization, etc.
An orderly sharing of space or resources.
Association for mutual benefit, such as for purposes of production or purchase.
A beginning; a first move.
A new development; a fresh approach to something; a new way of dealing with a problem.
The ability to act first or on one's own.
An issue to be voted on, brought to the ballot by a sufficient number of signatures from among the voting public.
Serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary.
In which voter s can be brought to the ballot.
* 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 [http://books.google.com/books?id=J6swcucKdNIC&pg=PA122&dq=initiative]:
As nouns the difference between cooperation and initiative
is that cooperation is the act of cooperating while initiative is a beginning; a first move.As an adjective initiative is
serving to initiate; inceptive; initiatory; introductory; preliminary.cooperation
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* (cooperation) * * * ----initiative
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* (issue to be voted on) direct initiativeDerived terms
* direct initiativeAdjective
(-)- 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.