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Brexit - the EU membership crisis that wasn't? [PDF]

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Schelkle W   +3 more
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Referendums and Referendum Campaigns

2021
The purpose of this entry is to explain what a referendum is, why it is held, as well as to discuss the notion of a referendum campaign. The entry then turns its attention to the 2020 New Zealand referendums on cannabis and End of Life Choice, which are offered as exemplars to showcase the unique neutral ‘signposting campaign’ approach utilised by the ...
Roper, Juliet   +2 more
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The Annals of the Parish: 2015–2016. From Referendum to Referendum to … Referendum?

Scottish Affairs, 2017
The two years since the Scottish independence referendum have been a roller-coaster ride, with the SNP picking up close to a hundred thousand new members and triumphing in the 2015 General Election, taking all but three seats in Scotland; with David Cameron winning, against the collective wisdom of the pollsters, a Westminster majority, obliging him ...
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The Likelihood of the Referendum Paradox for a Given Referendum Result

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
The referendum (or compound majority) paradox occurs when the majority of voters in the majority of districts supports an issue/candidate but the majority of voters across all districts opposes the same issue/candidate (or vice versa). We calculate the likelihood of this social choice anomaly for any (possibly large) odd number of districts and any ...
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Referendums

2015
This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Please check back later for the full article. Referendums are puzzling because they are ubiquitous.
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Referendum

2021
International ...
Bremond, Zérah, Ndior, Valère
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The USSR Referendum and Republic Counter-Referendums

2003
Referendum cases in the Soviet Union in 1991 demonstrate how the referendum device played a role in elite bargaining not only between executives and legislatures but also between institutions of different federal and regional structures. These cases demonstrate how referendums provide popular legitimacy to govern outside of Soviet Communism and change ...
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