Titlebook: Direct Democracy and Minorities; Wilfried Marxer (Political Scientist, Directors) Book 2012 VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften | Springer

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Direct Democracy and Linguistic Minorities in Switzerland and South Tyrol – A Comparisonct between popular decision-making by initiative and referendum and the requirement of interethnic consociational democratic procedures? The article focuses on the existing tension and supposed contradictions between procedures of direct democracy (initiative and referendum) and the protection of th

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Is the Irish Referendum a Majoritarian Device? provided for a constitutional safeguard, requiring only a simple majority to legitimise constitutional change. Yet an examination of its adjudication of three different issues shows no empirical connection between the referendum as a decision-making method, and majority rule. Rather party politics