3 Citations
Designing Popular Vote Processes to Enhance Democratic Systems
- Computer ScienceSwiss Political Science Review
- 2018
The main aim of this final essay is to draw on the insights gathered in the Debate “Do Referendums Enhance or Threaten Democracy” to inform future normative and empirical discussions about the design…
Referéndum y deliberación
- Political Science
- 2020
espanolUna de las criticas mas habituales que se realiza contra el empleo del referendum como cauce de decision de los asuntos publicos es aquella que hace referencia a sus carencias deliberativas.…
Information in Referendum Campaigns: How Can It Be Improved?
- BusinessRepresentation
- 2019
ABSTRACT High-quality information is widely regarded as essential for democratic referendum campaigns, but what this means and how it can be advanced has not been systematically studied. By reviewing…
References
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The Institutional Design of Referendums: Bottom-Up and Binding
- Political ScienceSwiss Political Science Review
- 2018
Contemporary democratic theorists generally argue that “referendums,” understood as popular votes on political issues as opposed to elections in which citizens select representatives, are not fit for…
Referendums Are Never Merely Referendums: On the Need to Make Popular Vote Processes More Deliberative
- EconomicsSwiss Political Science Review
- 2018
Majority Rule, Compromise and the Democratic Legitimacy of Referendums
- Political ScienceSwiss Political Science Review
- 2018
Cheneval and el-Wakil () defend referendums as a mechanism that allows a popular majority to express itself in situations where the standard channels of representative democracy fail to include the…
Making Referendums Safe for Democracy: A Call for More and Better Deliberation
- Political ScienceSwiss Political Science Review
- 2018
Philosophy and Politics
- Philosophy
- 1960
It would not be surprising if our deliberate suggestion, indeed, our intentional insistence that there is a connection between the words philosophy and politics were to evoke suspicion and dissent.…
The Original Meaning of “Democracy”: Capacity to Do Things, not Majority Rule
- History
- 2008
That the original meaning of democracy is "capacity to do things" not "majority rule" emerges from a study of the fifth and fourth century B.C. Greek vocabulary for regime-types. Special attention is…