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The EU Referendum in Northern Ireland: Closing Borders, Re-Opening Border Debates
The UK decision to leave the European Union (EU) following a referendum in June 2016 fundamentally alters the country’s relationship with the EU, with its European neighbours, with the rest of the world and potentially with its own constituent units.
Mary C. Murphy
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The Initiative and Referendum in California
Vincent Ostrom, Winston W. Crouch
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Directe democratie in Nederland : een onderzoek naar de mogelijkheden van openbaarheid van bestuur, inspraak, referendum en volksinitiatief in onze rechtsorde [PDF]
Hans Koning
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Testing for Budget Constraint Effects in a National Advisory Referendum Survey on the Kyoto Protocol [PDF]
In contrast to providing standard reminders about remembering household budgets, does asking survey respondents about their discretionary income and its use affect their voting responses in a national advisory referendum survey?
Berrens, Robert P.+5 more
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Abstract This paper examines the role played by financial markets and, in particular, changes in the price of and access to capital, along with institutional changes in the financial system, in shaping UK regional growth fortunes. This issue has been largely overlooked in debates on UK regional productivity disparities, but new data are now shedding ...
Michiel N. Daams+2 more
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Determinants of Direct Democracy [PDF]
This paper investigates on the demographic, economic, political and cultural determinants of direct democracy in 87 countries using an index of direct democracy.
Nadia Fiorino, Roberto Ricciuti
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More Power to the People Has Its Perils
There have been a number of recent calls for referendums, for two reasons. First, some argue that ratification of the reshaped EU constitution can only be done on the back of a referendum.
O'Hara, Kieron
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Abstract Having long shied away from proactively politicizing issues of European integration, the past crisis decade has put generally pro‐European mainstream parties under pressure to spell out more clearly which kind of Europe they support. We distinguish two such fundamental ideas of Europe: the redistributive polity, organizing transnational ...
CHRISTIAN FREUDLSPERGER, MARTIN WEINRICH
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CREATING A MUNICIPAL TUBERCULOSIS SANITARIUM BY REFERENDUM
Frank E. Wing
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