The Palgrave Handbook Of European Referendums 1st Edition

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• ISBN-10: 3030558037
• ISBN-13: 9783030558031
• Author: Julie Smith
  

This handbook provides an empirically rich analysis of referendums in Europe from the end of the Second World War to the present. It addresses a range of perennial theoretical and legal questions that face policy-makers when they offer citizens the chance to take or influence decisions by referendum, not least whether to accept the ‘will of the people’. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing on historical, philosophical and political science perspectives, the book includes a contextual section on the history of referendums, the theoretical questions underpinning their use, and on constitutional and legal questions about the use of referendums. The empirical sections are divided into those referendums that focus on domestic issues, such as constitutional matters or questions of social policy, and those related to the European Union, including membership referendums and treaty ratification.

Table contents:

1. Introduction
Part I. Referendums in Theory and in Practice
2. Referendums and Democratic Theory
3. History
4. The Rules of Referendums
5. Referendums and Parliaments
6. The Shifting Will of the People: The Case of EU Referendums
7. Two Hundred Years of Direct Democracy: The Referendum in Europe 1793–2018
Part II. Domestic Referendums
8. The King Versus the People: Lessons from a Belgian Referendum
9. The Referendum Experience in France
10. The Referendum Experience in Switzerland
11. The Scottish and Welsh Devolution Referendums of 1979 and 1997
12. The 1998 Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement Referendums in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland
13. The United Kingdom Parliamentary Voting System Referendum of 2011
14. The Scottish Independence Referendum of 2014
15. The 2017 Catalan Referendum in Comparative Perspective
16. The Irish Referendums on Marriage Equality and Abortion
17. Referenda and Constitutional Change in Italy—The Failed Change
18. Luxembourg: The 2015 Referendum on Voting Rights for Foreign Residents
19. Turkey’s Constitutional Referendum: The 16 April 2017 Referendum in Historical Perspective
Part III. EU-Related Referendums
20. The Irish and Danish 1972 Referendums on EC Accession
21. Referendums: Norway 1972 and 1994
22. In or Out of ‘Europe’? The 1975 and 2016 UK Referendums on Membership
23. The EFTA Enlargement
24. EU Accession Referendums
25. ‘If You Can’t Join Them…’: Explaining No Votes in Danish EU Referendums
26. The 2003 Swedish Euro Referendum
27. Referendums on EU Treaty Reform: Revisiting the Result in Second Referendums
28. The French and Dutch Block the Constitutional Treaty
29. Swiss Votes on Europe
30. The 2015 Greek Referendum on Bailouts
31. Hungary’s EU Refugee Relocation Quota Referendum: ‘Let’s Send a Message to Brussels’
32. The Dutch Referendum on the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement
33. Issue Voting in Danish EU Referendums

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