The U.S. states that allow for citizens' initiatives tend to have fewer laws and lower taxes than the ones that don't. But the beauty of the system is that it encourages the spread of best practice.

In April 2009 he criticised an EC Directive that would end the exemption in British law for religious groups to discriminate on grounds on conscience. Why America Must Not Follow Europe. Towards 1996: Britain in a Multi-Speed Europe.

He currently serves on the Committee on Constitutional Affairs and the delegation to the ACP–EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly. He is also the Secretary-General of the Alliance of European Conservatives and Reformists (AECR). Hannan's ideology is localism and he has written several books arguing for democratic reform.