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Direct Democracy and Debt [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2003 The constitutions of numerous states require municipalities to obtain electoral approval prior to issuing debt. When the electorate rejects debt proposals, however, officials may proceed with the proposed project through an alternative financing mechanism that does not require a vote.
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Direct Democracy and Referendums
2017This chapter outlines the history of the use of the referendum and outlines why politicians have resorted to using referendums. While referendums may be justified on the grounds that they provide legitimacy to controversial decisions, the empirical and statistical evidence suggests that referendums are generally held due to political expediency ...
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Reflections of a party scholar on direct democracy and the direct democracy literature
Electoral Studies, 2015In a seminal work, E.E. Schattschneider identified three functions that political parties can (and sometimes do) perform in representative democracies. His list included simplifying the alternatives, educating the public, and promoting accountable governance. This paper proceeds from the premise that disquiet about direct democracy is, in part, because
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Protectionism in direct democracy [PDF]
, 1989 Public choice theory provides arguments to explain why protectionism is prevalent all over the world. In this paper it is argued that even when citizens have the possibility to decide on trade barriers in direct democracy, tariffs are maintained or even increased. This result is traced to the process of drafting the proposal, the individual decision to
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
Legal scholars, economists, and political scientists are divided on whether voter initiatives and legislative referendums tend to produce outcomes that are more (or less) majoritarian, efficient, or solicitous of minority concerns than traditional legislation.
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Legal scholars, economists, and political scientists are divided on whether voter initiatives and legislative referendums tend to produce outcomes that are more (or less) majoritarian, efficient, or solicitous of minority concerns than traditional legislation.
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American Political Science Review, 1963
When during the debate on a motion of censure in October 1962 Paul Reynaud challenged the government from the rostrum of the National Assembly with a scornful: “Here and nowhere else is France!”, the issue was well joined. To Reynaud, perennial deputy during three republican regimes, General de Gaulle's projected referendum appeared as a two-fold ...
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When during the debate on a motion of censure in October 1962 Paul Reynaud challenged the government from the rostrum of the National Assembly with a scornful: “Here and nowhere else is France!”, the issue was well joined. To Reynaud, perennial deputy during three republican regimes, General de Gaulle's projected referendum appeared as a two-fold ...
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2019
Many campaigns have no candidates involved, just issues. Ballot campaigns have become an integral part of American policymaking, and immigration reform, tax increases, marijuana legalization, and other hot-button issues are decided directly by the citizenry.
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Many campaigns have no candidates involved, just issues. Ballot campaigns have become an integral part of American policymaking, and immigration reform, tax increases, marijuana legalization, and other hot-button issues are decided directly by the citizenry.
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Direct Democracy and Minorities
2012With articles by Franz Cede, Rolf Friedrich Krause, Theo Schiller, Anna Christmann, Jonathan Wheatley, Elisabeth Alber, Zoltan Tibor Pallinger, Thomas Benedikter, Hermann K. Heussner, Bill Kissane, Deniz Danaci, Wilfried Marxer, Rolf Buechi, Frank Marcinkowski, Andre Donk, Kai Oppermann, Bruno Kaufmann, Johannes W. Pichler Popular Votes and Minorities:
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2015
This chapter covers the Hellenistic era, noting how democracy was severely curtailed in the decades after c.323 B.C., then went into a terminal decline, and was effectively dead by the beginning of the Roman Empire, if not long before. In Athens, the old vestiges of self governance continued, but in more or less weakened condition, as the Council and ...
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This chapter covers the Hellenistic era, noting how democracy was severely curtailed in the decades after c.323 B.C., then went into a terminal decline, and was effectively dead by the beginning of the Roman Empire, if not long before. In Athens, the old vestiges of self governance continued, but in more or less weakened condition, as the Council and ...
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