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| Author | : M. Walker |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 167 |
| Release | : 2003-08-02 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1403973776 |
The strategic use of referendums by leaders often confers legitimacy but it may also reflect the power struggle between leaders, groups, and institutions and in doing so not provide a democratic result for the citizenry of a country.
| Author | : Maija Setälä |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 2009-09-10 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1135215065 |
This volume analyses how the use of referendums affects the central functions and characteristics of representative democracy. It provides a balanced account of the interaction between referendums and representative institutions and actors, seeking to evaluate whether referendums supplement or undermine representative democracy. Considering both normative and empirical questions, the volume also examines the particular circumstances under which referendums strengthen or weaken representative democracy. Providing a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches used in the study of referendums, this book is divided into three sections: Referendums and the Models of Democracy, The Demand of Referendums: Party Ideologies and Strategies, and Referendum Campaigns and Voter Behaviour. It features case studies on Ireland, Israel, Canada, California, Italy, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, the Nordic Countries, the Netherlands, Spain and the EU Constitutional Treaty. In addition to system-level evaluations of referendums, studies on the ideological attitudes of political actors and strategic use of referendums, the volume also provides analyses of referendum campaigns and voters’ choices in referendums. Covering referendums on European integration, the volume also demonstrates how supra-national governance gives rise to the demand of referendums. This volume will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, political theory, comparative politics, and European studies.
| Author | : Saskia Hollander |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 345 |
| Release | : 2019-04-02 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 3030041972 |
This book demonstrates that the generally assumed dichotomy between referendums and representative democracy does not do justice to the great diversity of referendum types and of how referendums are used in European democracies. Although in all referendums citizens vote directly on issues rather than letting their political representatives do this for them, some referendums are more direct than others. Rather than reflecting the direct power of the People, most referendums in EU countries are held by, and serve the interests of, the political elites, most notably the executive. The book shows that these interests rarely match the justifications given in the public debate. Instead of being driven by the need to compensate for the deficiency of political parties, decision-makers use referendums primarily to protect the position of their party. In unravelling the strategic role played by national referendums in decision-making, this book makes an unconventional contribution to the debate on the impact of referendums on democracy.
| Author | : M. Mendelsohn |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 292 |
| Release | : 2001-09-25 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1403900965 |
As the referendum becomes a more regular component of decision making, it leaves few, if any, institutions, processes and values of democracy untouched. Political actors of all kinds - including political parties and interest groups - seek to use the referendum device to further their own objectives. The end result is a different kind of democracy than existed before. This book lays out the comparative research agenda on the impact of referendums on the practice of liberal democracy.
| Author | : Lawrence LeDuc |
| Publisher | : Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2003-09 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : |
This book aims to provide a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of direct democratic institutions and devices as they have developed both in the thinking of modern political theorists and in actual political practice in the world's major democratic nations.
| Author | : Matt Qvortrup |
| Publisher | : Pocket Politics |
| Total Pages | : 99 |
| Release | : 2018 |
| Genre | : Referendum |
| ISBN | : 9781526130037 |
A perfect primer for anyone interested in the politics of referendums.
| Author | : Holli A. Semetko |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 237 |
| Release | : 2004-08-02 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1134272979 |
This book reviews the research on campaigns and elections and investigates the effects of campaigning in referendums, drawing on panel survey data, media content data, focus groups, and interviews with journalists and campaign managers. The authors argue that the media coverage not only influences public perceptions of the campaign, the referendum issue and the party leaders, but that, in a close race, it also shapes the voting and the political future of the incumbent party. The first study to investigate the dynamics and effects of a referendum campaign on politicians, media and citizens, this innovative volume will be of interest to students and researchers of political communication.
| Author | : David Altman |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 283 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1108496636 |
Offers a comparative study of the origins, performance, and reform of contemporary mechanisms of direct democracy.
| Author | : Matt Qvortrup |
| Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
| Total Pages | : 201 |
| Release | : 2014-01-30 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 081220932X |
Although referendums have been used for centuries to settle ethnonational conflicts, there has yet been no systematic study or generalized theory concerning their effectiveness. Referendums and Ethnic Conflict fills the gap with a comparative and empirical analysis of all the referendums held on ethnic and national issues from the French Revolution to the 2012 referendum on statehood for Puerto Rico. Drawing on political theory and descriptive case studies, Matt Qvortrup creates typologies of referendums that are held to endorse secession, redraw disputed borders, legitimize a policy of homogenization, or otherwise manage ethnic or national differences. He considers the circumstances that compel politicians to resort to direct democracy, such as regime change, and the conditions that might exacerbate a violent response. Qvortrup offers a clear-eyed assessment of the problems raised when conflict resolution is sought through referendum as well as the conditions that are likely to lead to peaceful outcomes. This original political framework will provide a vital resource in the ongoing investigation into how democracy and nationalism may be reconciled.
| Author | : Robert Rohrschneider |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 731 |
| Release | : 2020-07-28 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0192558692 |
The Handbook of Political Representation in Liberal Democracies offers a state-of-the-art assessment of the functioning of political representation in liberal democracies. In 34 chapters the world's leading scholars on the various aspects of political representation address eight broad themes: The concept and theories of political representation, its history and the main requisites for its development; elite orientations and behavior; descriptive representation; party government and representation; non-electoral forms of political participation and how they relate to political representation; the challenges to representative democracy originating from the growing importance of non-majoritarian institutions and social media; the rise of populism and its consequences for the functioning of representative democracy; the challenge caused by economic and political globlization: what does it mean for the functioning of political representation at the national leval and is it possible to develop institutions of representative democracy at a level above the state that meet the normative criteria of representative democracy and are supported by the people? The various chapters offer a comprehensive review of the literature on the various aspects of political representation. The main organizing principle of the Handbook is the chain of political representation, the chain connecting the interests and policy preferences of the people to public policy via political parties, parliament, and government. Most of the chapters assessing the functioning of the chain of political representation and its various links are based on original comparative political research. Comparative research on political representation and its various subfields has developed dramatically over the last decades so that even ten years ago a Handbook like this would have looked totally different.
