Beyond for or against? Multi-option alternatives to a corrective referendum
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DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2019.102091
Abstract: Abstract Referendums commonly offer a binary choice between supporting and rejecting proposed legislation. Binary designs benefit from simplicity and guarantee a majority result, but also provoke voting biases and interpretation challenges. Referendum designs offering multiple… read more here.
Keywords: corrective referendum; multi option; referendum; beyond multi ... See more keywords
Explaining voting in the UK's 2016 EU referendum: Values, attitudes to immigration, European identity and political trust.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2020.102476
Abstract: We consider the role of values as determinants of voting in the UK's 2016 EU referendum. First, we consider and clarify 'values' conceptually, before proceeding to utilise Schwartz's basic human values as the most appropriate.… read more here.
Keywords: attitudes immigration; trust; 2016 referendum; referendum ... See more keywords
Obscurities of a Referendum Foretold: The 2017 Constitutional Amendments in Turkey
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DOI: 10.1017/rms.2018.9
Abstract: Abstract The 2017 referendum marked a transition from an already incongruous parliamentary system to rampant presidentialism and created more conflicts rather than defusing them. Given the extraordinary conditions under which the referendum was held, and… read more here.
Keywords: 2017 constitutional; obscurities referendum; constitutional amendments; foretold 2017 ... See more keywords
The rise and fall of the Dutch referendum law (2015–2018): initiation, use, and abolition of the corrective, citizen-initiated, and non-binding referendum
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DOI: 10.1057/s41269-020-00175-3
Abstract: In 2018, the Netherlands became the first democratic country to abolish its national referendum legislation. The Dutch referendum law of 2015–2018 allowed facultative, citizen-initiated, corrective, non-binding referendums, to veto specific types of laws passed by… read more here.
Keywords: dutch referendum; referendum; referendum law; abolition ... See more keywords
The quintessentially democratic act? Democracy, political community and citizenship in and after the UK’s EU referendum of June 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/07036337.2017.1333119
Abstract: Abstract On 23 June 2016, the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, by a rather small majority. Although much about the future relations between the EU and the UK remains uncertain, it is… read more here.
Keywords: community citizenship; democracy political; political community; referendum ... See more keywords
‘Never just a local war’: explaining the failure of a mayor’s recall referendum
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DOI: 10.1080/13569775.2018.1543923
Abstract: ABSTRACT The November 2017 referendum for the recall of Dorin Chirtoacă, Mayor of Chișinău (Moldova), largely failed because of the citizens’ low turnout. Why do recall referendums fail and, in particular, why was this boycott… read more here.
Keywords: war explaining; never local; mayor; recall ... See more keywords
Referendum on Renzi: The 2016 Vote on the Italian Constitutional Revision
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DOI: 10.1080/13608746.2017.1354421
Abstract: Abstract The 2016 constitutional referendum could have marked a new phase in Italian politics, producing a clear shift towards a majoritarian (and de facto presidential) democracy. But a substantial majority of voters rejected the reforms… read more here.
Keywords: vote; renzi 2016; referendum renzi; referendum ... See more keywords
Areal interpolation and the UK's referendum on EU membership
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DOI: 10.1080/17457289.2017.1287081
Abstract: ABSTRACT I show how results from the United Kingdom's referendum on membership of the European Union can be remapped from local authority level to parliamentary constituency level through the use of a scaled Poisson regression… read more here.
Keywords: areal interpolation; level; interpolation referendum; referendum membership ... See more keywords
Navigating without maps: constitutional silence and the management of the Brexit crisis
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DOI: 10.1093/icon/moy068
Abstract: The vote by a narrow majority to Leave the European Union (EU) (“Brexit”) in the referendum of 23 June 2016 produced a political crisis in the United Kingdom (UK), in terms of deep uncertainty about… read more here.
Keywords: brexit crisis; silence; referendum; constitutional silence ... See more keywords
A multiplicative process for generating a beta-like survival function with application to the UK 2016 EU referendum results
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DOI: 10.1142/s0129183117501327
Abstract: Human dynamics and sociophysics suggest statistical models that may explain and provide us with better insight into social phenomena. Contextual and selection effects tend to produce extreme values in the tails of rank-ordered distributions of… read more here.
Keywords: beta like; referendum results; survival function; referendum ... See more keywords
Conflicting messages of electoral protest: The role of systemic and elite discontent in the Italian 2016 constitutional referendum
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DOI: 10.1177/0263395720974975
Abstract: The vote NO (a defeat for the proponents) of the 2016 Italian referendum has been broadly attributed to a wave of protest politics sweeping Western democracies. Given that the government of Matteo ... read more here.
Keywords: conflicting messages; messages electoral; electoral protest; role systemic ... See more keywords