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Rights, respect, and the duty to obey the law

open access: yes
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Shruta Swarup
wiley   +1 more source

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 Struggle for Quebec: From Referendum to Referendum?

Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, 2001
In The Struggle for Quebec Young updates this work, treating new developments and making his analysis accessible to a wider audience. He describes the prelude to the 1995 referendum campaign, as well as the history of the campaign itself, analysing the arguments deployed by federalists and sovereigntists and seeking to explain why the Yes forces gained
Robert Young, Yvan Gagnon
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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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Referendums and Direct Democracy

2020
We start by tracing the origins of modern-day direct democracy back to the ideas of participatory democrats, and we give a systematic overview of the different forms of direct democratic practices existing today, as well as of the main criticisms of direct democracy. Next, we review existing empirical evidence on some of the crucial debates surrounding
Colombo, Céline, Kriesi, Hanspeter
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