When who and how matter: explaining the success of referendums in Europe [PDF]
, 2017 This article aims to identify the institutional factors that make a referendum successful. This comparative analysis seeks to explain the success of top-down referendums organized in Europe between 2001 and 2013.
Gherghina, Sergiu, Silagadze, Nanuli
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Ireland's EU Referendum Experience [PDF]
, 2009 The purpose of this article is twofold. First, it surveys Ireland’s European Union referendum experience, tracing the key actors, issues and political dynamics of seven European referendums from 1973 to 2008.
O'Mahony, Jane
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The clarity of referendums: An instrument for managing the (dis)continuity and perception of change [PDF]
Pravni Zapisi, 2022 Seen as a precondition for a referendum, clarity requires a clear referendum question and a clear majority for or against an outcome. In this article I argue clarity is not only an enabler of individual referendums but one way to politicize their context.
Miloš Matija
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Ramy prawne referendum w irańskim kontekście konstytucyjnym [PDF]
, 2019 In democratic regimes, the participation of citizens in the enforcement of political power constitutes the keystone of the legitimacy of sovereignty.
Hashjin, Seyed Hossein Malakooti
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Spain’s referendum on the European Constitutional Treaty: a quantitative analysis within the conceptual framework of first and second order elections [PDF]
, 2010 In contrast to the attention devoted to the rejection of the EU Constitutional Treaty at French and Dutch referenda; the Spanish referendum, where this Treaty was ratified, remained under-researched by political scientists. This paper analyses the voting
Erkan, Ozgur
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Referendum – instrument czy iluzja władzy polskiego suwerena?
Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny, 2018 Autor analizuje następujące problemy: polskie tradycje referendalne w XX w., obowiązujące uregulowanie referendum zawarte w Konstytucji Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z 1997 r.
Dariusz Dudek
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Marrying European and Domestic Politics? The Marriage Referendum in Croatia and Value-Based Euroscepticism [PDF]
, 2017 On 1 December 2013, Croatia voted in a referendum on the constitutional definition of marriage. Whilst recent scholarship highlighted the symbolism nature of the referendum in domestic politics, its European dimension has not been reflected on.Using ...
Sircar, I., Slootmaeckers, K.
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Legitimation of the Referendum - the Standard Mechanism of Participatory Democracy
Journal of Legal Studies, 2017 The referendum is a multidimensional instrument, attested and practiced worldwide, considered to be a compulsory feature of democracy, provided it is used under strict lawfulness.
Ușvat Laviniu Florin
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Commitment to the truth or defensive stance? Political strategies in the Brexit contest
Psychology of Language and Communication, 2021 This paper analyses politicians’ selection of adverbs of certainty and extreme case formulations (ECFs) in both the 1975 Referendum and the Brexit (2016).
Iñigo-Mora Isabel
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