Titlebook: Referendum Democracy; Citizens, Elites and Matthew Mendelsohn (Associate Professor),Andrew Pa Book 2001 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of M

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Book 2001d. 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

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Introduction: Referendum Democracyjurisdictions with a long history of direct democracy, notably many of the western US states, more questions are being placed on the ballot than in previous decades. In societies where the referendum has been used only sparingly in the past (such as the United Kingdom, Denmark, and Canada), it has n

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Public Opinion and Support for Direct Democracy: a Grassroots Perspective in other democratic countries around the world (Butler and Ranney, 1994; Dalton, 1996; Uleri, 1996; Set?l?, 1999a). However, though it is clear that this phenomenon has occurred, there is little understanding or agreement as to the reasons why. A review of the literature suggests numerous possible

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Legislative Response to Direct Legislationtiative or referendum. A second way is indirectly, when legislators or other policy-makers respond to the threat of, or act in anticipation of, initiatives or referendums. Many recent studies have advanced our understanding of direct effects by analyzing what types of policies voters pass by initiat

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Amending Constitutions through the Referendum Devicein democratic constitutional theory and is a well-established part of some constitutional democracies. Current interest in direct democracy is mainly focused on popular initiatives and referendums as alternative mechanisms to ordinary decision making by representatives. Such ‘unmediated popular voti

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Popular Control of Referendum Agendas: Implications for Democratic Outcomes and Minority Rights7; Bell, 1978; Butler and Ranney, 1994; Eule, 1990; Linde, 1993; Magleby, 1984). Three major assumptions underlie this concern. The first is that the process of direct democracy allows a majority relatively free rein over drafting and implementing laws. The second is that popular majorities are expe

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The Medium is the Message: How Referendums Lead us to Understand Equalitylimited self-government for the Nisga’a and recognized their claim to a portion of their traditional lands.. The treaty generated an enormous amount of attention and controversy in the province. Some non-Nisga’a Aboriginal peoples opposed it because, they argued, it accepted the Nisga’a claim to lan