Direct Democracy (Update)
Practice and Future Prospects of Direct Democracy in Switzerland
... that direct democracy affects not only the policies but also the political environment of the ...of democracy, which is, preferred more by the masses in today‟s ...world. Direct ...
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Usability and Sociability of Direct Democracy Projects Based on Online Groups
... Abstract: Digital media, in particular social media, are often perceived to be changing political participation. In this discourse, the Internet is seen as a new public sphere with promises of increased democratization ...
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New Directions for Empirical Studies of Direct Democracy
... To be sure, direct democracy does not occur in a vacuum. Instead, courts are often called upon to exercise judicial review of the decisions made at the ballot box. However, the imprint of policy changes ...
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In Search of the Lost Constitution: The EU between Direct Democracy and the Permissive Consensus
... Following the negative results of the French and Dutch referendums on the Constitutional Treaty, the European Council has called for a "period of reflection" before reviewing the situation in 2006. This period ...
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Explaining institutional change : why elected politicians implement direct democracy
... introduced direct democracy so as to give the people a veto in case their successors undid their ...for direct democratic reform made only out of extreme reformers who expected to lose ...
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Direct Democracy: Chances and Challenges
... other: democracy and the rule of law. 38 An (extremely extensive) direct democracy can lead to a situation in which the electorate makes arbitrary decisions that unambiguously contradict elementary ...
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Direct Democracy in the EU –The Myth of a Citizens’ Union CEPS Paperback, November 2018
... Denmark makes extensive use of direct democracy instruments to determine its political approach to Europe. This is due to a constitutional requirement to hold referendums under certain circumstances and the ...
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Direct Democracy as a Legislative Act
... and direct democracy proponents have begun to treat direct democracy as a legislative act, and second, to begin to consider some of the practical and legal consequences of the conclusion that ...
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The confidence vote and technical age of Mass Communication in Direct Democracy
... this direct democratic model is composed of two related aspects the conferring of formal responsibility for public judgments on the public the various decision- making instances present in the running of" any ...
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The Timeliness of Direct Democracy in the EU—The Example of Nuclear Energy in the EU and the Institutionalisation of the European Citizens’ Initiative in the Lisbon Treaty
... The catastrophic nuclear incident in Fukushima in March 2011 has shocked Europe. Its impact was particularly strong in Germany with its decade-old anti-nuclear movements. Political and technological re-orientations were ...
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Issues in Implementing Referendums in Israel: A Comparative Study in Direct Democracy
... Many commentators argue that territorial and boundary determinations require popular involvement and a formal expression of majority support in order to be perceived as[r] ...
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Direct Democracy through Initiative and Referendum: Checking the Balance
... In the election of June 5, 1990, California voters considered Proposition 115, the Crime Victims Justice Reform Act.' 6 This initiative measure covered the following i[r] ...
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The Revitalization of the Community based Management of Acute Malnutrition Program in Haiti
... of direct democracy on the number of bills enacted by the state legislature, finding that initiative states on average pass more legislations than non-initiative ...
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A typology of education ballot issues: 1906 to 2009 Hacia una tipología de las consultas electorales sobre educación en Estados Unidos: 1906-2009
... through direct democracy and legislation adopted by elected ...that direct democracy may alter legislative behavior regarding educational policy ...participatory democracy, what factors ...
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Citizen Involvement in EU Policies: Impossible Dream or Work in Progress? EIPAscope 01/2011
... representative democracy’: direct representation in the European Parliament, and indirectly through the European Council and ...suggest direct democracy, however, so much as the active ...
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The European Citizens’ Initiative: A Solution to the Democratic Deficit?
... of direct representation cannot solve the difference between the EU and citizens (Dolenec, 2012: ...of democracy discussed previously in this thesis such as effective participation, enlightened understand, ...
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Technology and Governance: Enabling Participatory Democracy
... a direct vote in which an entire electorate (representatives) is asked either to accept or reject a particular ...of direct democracy as outlined ...participatory democracy which goes beyond ...
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Varieties of update
... A related system is that in McCready 2010 , which builds on Potts 2005 to analyze cases of mixed content (expressions that contribute both not- at-issue and at-issue information) and cases where expressive meaning is ...
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Baltic Sea regional initiative. Communication from the Commission. SEC (96) 608 final, 10 April 1996
... To strengthen the democracy in the region the Commission will further support: • direct contacts between public and private institutions, including publit: administn1tion reform, for ins[r] ...
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Power Point 5
... successful democracy is based on the consent of the governed along with widespread ...formal democracy is a political system that possesses four factors: ...
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