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Direct Democracy in Europe - Developments and Prospects
von: Zoltán Tibor Pállinger, Bruno Kaufmann, Wilfried Marxer, Theo Schiller
VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften (GWV), 2007
ISBN: 9783531905792 , 219 Seiten
Format: PDF, OL
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen
Preis: 53,49 EUR
Content
6
Foreword
8
System contexts and system effects of direct democracy - direct democracy in Liechtenstein and Switzerland compared
13
Direct-democratic procedures as corrective mechanisms in consociational systems or for clientelistic structures — some brief remarks
31
A Double Integration Policy Divide: Votes and Interest Group Recommendations in Switzerland
36
Direct Democracy and Theories of Participatory Democracy — some observations
53
The design determines the quality – some criteria for determining the design and the quality of direct democracy
65
Reflections on the social production of incompetent citizens
72
The role of the political elite in Swiss direct-democratic votes
83
Beyond Information and Opinion. The importance of public communication in the referendum process
95
On the economic efficiency of direct democracy
109
Direct Democracy and Citizens’ Information about Politics
126
Prospects for Transnational Direct Democracy—Exploring the New European Approach to Citizens’ Power beyond the Nation- State
144
Voting Behaviour in the European Constitution Process
164
Referendums and Ratification of the EU Constitution1
175
Referendum experience in Slovakia: a long and winding road
190
Prospects for Participatory Democracy in the Supranational Constitutionalism of the European Union
200
Databases for (empirical) research on “direct democracy”
208
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