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Author(s): Maija Setälä, Theo Schiller
ISBN(s): 9780203873427, 0203873424
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Year: 2009
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ISBN 10: 0203873424 
ISBN 13: 9780203873427
Author: Maija Setala, Theo Schiller

This volume analyses how the use of referendums affects the central functions and characteristics of representative democracy. It provides a balanced account of the interaction between referendums and representative institutions and actors, seeking to evaluate whether referendums supplement or undermine representative democracy. Considering both normative and empirical questions, the volume also examines the particular circumstances under which referendums strengthen or weaken representative democracy. Providing a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches used in the study of referendums, this book is divided into three sections: Referendums and the Models of Democracy, The Demand of Referendums: Party Ideologies and Strategies, and Referendum Campaigns and Voter Behaviour. It features case studies on Ireland, Israel, Canada, California, Italy, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, the Nordic Countries, the Netherlands, Spain and the EU Constitutional Treaty. In addition to system-level evaluations of referendums, studies on the ideological attitudes of political actors and strategic use of referendums, the volume also provides analyses of referendum campaigns and voters’ choices in referendums. Covering referendums on European integration, the volume also demonstrates how supra-national governance gives rise to the demand of referendums. This volume will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, political theory, comparative politics, and European studies.

Referendums and Representative Democracy Responsiveness Accountability and Deliberation 1st Table of contents:

1 Introduction

  • Popular self-government in a modern society?

  • The interaction between referendums and representative democracy

  • Outline of this book

  • Notes

  • References

I. Referendums and Models of Democracy
2 From people’s veto to instrument of elite consensus: The referendum experience in Ireland
3 Stabilizing or destabilizing? Direct-democratic instruments in different political systems
4 Ideological positions and the referendum in the Netherlands

II. The Demand for Referendums: Strategies and Ideologies
5 To structure political conflict: The institutionalization of referendums on European integration in the Nordic countries
6 Elite motives for initiating referendums: Avoidance, addition and contradiction
7 The surge of referendums and the New Politics approach

III. Referendum Campaigns and Voter Behaviour
8 Campaign tactics and outcomes in referendums: A comparative analysis
9 Intense but useless? Public debate and voting factors in two referendums in Spain
10 Checks and balances in Swiss direct democracy

11 Conclusions

  • Institutions and structural contexts

  • Mandatory referendums

  • Citizen-initiated referendums: popular initiative, rejective and abrogative referendum

  • Referendums initiated by governmental authorities

  • Responsiveness, accountability and deliberation

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