Titlebook: Referendum Democracy; Citizens, Elites and Matthew Mendelsohn (Associate Professor),Andrew Pa Book 2001 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of M

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Voters’ Decisions in the Nordic EU Referendums of 1994: the Importance of Party Cuesditional depiction, they are sometimes described as having given up their democratic responsibility in the case of referendums. They leave the responsibility for solving difficult problems to citizens and withdraw from public debate, failing to give citizens the political guidance they badly need. I

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The News Media and Referendums. Yet the question of how the news media cover referendums has not been systematically considered.. Proponents of referendums who idealize their deliberative possibilities may forget that political discourse will be mediated through the news values of media organizations, which are often inimical to

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Constitutional Referendums and Democratic Deliberationmocracy and toward a view anchored in conceptions of accountability and discussion. Voting-centric democratic theory is being replaced by talk-centric democratic theory.. The voting-centric view sees democracy as the arena in which fixed preferences and interests compete via fair mechanisms of aggre

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The Medium is the Message: How Referendums Lead us to Understand Equalityds. Some of these opponents called for a referendum on the Nisga’a agreement. This call drew enthusiastic support mostly from those in the province who were already eager to hold referendums whenever possible..

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Constitutional Referendums and Democratic Deliberationnd policy, and potentially leads to consensus. While nineteenth- and early twentieth-century democratization was concerned with expanding the vote to include everybody, today democratization often focuses on expanding the public sphere to give everyone a say.. Voice rather than votes is the new vehicle of empowerment.

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Political Parties in Direct Democracytion. Because electors presumably vote for the policies they most prefer, parties serve as crucial intermediaries in the (rough) translation of majority wishes into government policies — a central claim of democracy.

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Amending Constitutions through the Referendum Device transaction costs of indirectness (Budge, 1996, chapter 2) on issues such as immigration or taxation. Such referendums might be seen as being in conflict with, or narrowing the scope for, the normal decision making of representative democracy.