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Who is in favor of enlargement? Determinants of support for EU membership in the candidate countries' referenda [PDF]

open access: yes
We analyze support for EU membership as expressed in voting patterns in the candidate countries’ referenda on EU membership, using regional referendum results and individual survey data on voting intentions. We find that favorable individual and regional
Doyle, Orla, Fidrmuc, Jan
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Empirical realism and democratic equality

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Recently, empirical political scientists have challenged presuppositions about voter behavior that they take to be widespread in normative democratic theory, charging that democratic theory is unmoored from empirical reality. For their part, many normative democratic theorists have rejected empiricists’ characterizations of their subfield and ...
Emma Saunders‐Hastings
wiley   +1 more source

The Revision Procedure, the Role of the Constitutional Court in the Referendum Procedure and the President Dismissal

open access: yesAnnals of Philosophy, Social and Human Disciplines, 2011
The revision procedure combines specific techniques of the representative democracy with those specific to direct democracy, both by enshrining popular constitutional initiative, and by giving the social corpus the possibility to ...
Ştefan Alexandru BĂIŞANU
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National identity after conquest

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Conquering powers routinely adopt state‐directed nationalization projects that seek to make the boundaries of the nation coterminous with the (newly expanded) boundaries of the state. To this end, they implement policies that elevate the economic status of individuals who embrace the occupier's national identity and discriminate against those ...
Christopher Carter, Daniel W. Gingerich
wiley   +1 more source

El referèndum. Qüestions teòriques i de l'experiència italiana

open access: yesRevista Catalana de Dret Públic, 2008
Aquest assaig és fruit de la convicció que la tesi sostinguda habitualment, segons la qual el referèndum seria un instrument de democràcia directa, és errònia.
Massimo Luciani
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Referéndum = Referendum

open access: diamond, 2018
Jorge San Vicente Feduchi
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The public agglomeration effect: Urban–rural divisions in government efficiency and political preferences

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Why and when do cities vote for the left? The emergence of the urban–rural divide in the United States in the 1930s is inconsistent with canonical theories of cleavages. This paper introduces an explanation: agglomeration effects. The provision of government services is more efficient in urban environments because of nonrivalries, economies of
Theo Serlin
wiley   +1 more source

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