Power to the People! But How? the Different Uses of Referendums around the WorldAltmanD. (2011) Direct Democracy Worldwide. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.BernhardL. (2012) Campaign Strategy in Direct Democracy. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.HoboltS. B. (2009) Europe in Question: Referendums on European Integration. Oxford: Oxford University Press.SchillerT. (ed.) (2011) Local Direct Democracy in Europe. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag.SetäläM. and SchillerT. (eds) (2012) Citizens' Initiatives in Europe: Procedures and Consequences of Agenda-Setting by Citizens. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.TierneyS. (2012) Constitutional Referendums: The Theory and Practice of Republican Deliberation. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Wyn JonesR. and ScullyR. (2012) Wales Says Yes: Devolution and the 2011 Welsh Referendum. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matt Qvortrup
Keyword(s):  
European Integration ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Campaign Strategy ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
The People

scholarly journals Democratic Theory and the Empirical Study of Popular Vote Processes

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-125
Author(s):  
Spencer McKay
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
University Of Michigan ◽  
Secondary Effects ◽  
Popular Vote ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
The People ◽  
Ann Arbor ◽  
Realistic Appraisal

Altman, David. 2018. Citizenship and Contemporary Direct Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Dyck, Joshua, and Edward Lascher. 2019. Initiatives without Engagement: A Realistic Appraisal of Direct Democracy’s Secondary Effects. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.Hollander, Saskia. 2019. The Politics of Referendum Use in European Democracies. London: Palgrave MacMillan.Matsusaka, John G. 2020. Let the People Rule: How Direct Democracy Can Meet the Populist Challenge. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Reviews: Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics, Ethics through Literature: Ascetic and Aesthetic Reading in Western Culture, Books without Borders, Tudor Autobiography: Listening for Inwardness, Volpone, and the Gunpowder Plot, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Love and Service, Monuments and Memory in Early Modern England, the Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture, National Myth and Imperial Fantasy: Representations of Britishness on the Early Eighteenth-Century Stage, Why Victorian Literature Still Matters, Shakespeare for the People: Working-Class Readers, 1800–1900, Publishing in the First World War: Essays in Book History, Little Magazines and Modernism: New Approaches, the Flyer: British Culture and the Royal Air Force 1939–1945, American Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840–1945, William Faulkner: Seeing through the SouthStefanCollini, Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics , Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. viii+368, £25.BrianStock, Ethics through Literature: Ascetic and Aesthetic Reading in Western Culture , Brandeis Press / Historical Society of Israel, 2007, pp. xviii+ 167, £38.50.RobertFraser and HammondMary (eds), Books Without Borders Volume 1, The Cross-National Dimension in Print Culture; Volume 2, Perspectives from South Asia , Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, pp. xv + 210 + 204, £45 each.MeredithAnne Skura, Tudor Autobiography: Listening for Inwardness , University of Chicago Press, 2008, pp. xii + 301, $45.00.RichardDutton, JonsonBen, Volpone, and the Gunpowder Plot , Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. xiv + 178, £50.DavidSchalkwyk, Shakespeare, Love and Service , Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. x + 317, £50.PeterSherlock, Monuments and Memory in Early Modern England , Ashgate, 2008, pp. xiv + 282, £55.00GeorgeBoulukos, The Grateful Slave: The Emergence of Race in Eighteenth-Century British and American Culture , Cambridge University Press, 2008. pp. viii + 280, £50.LouiseH. Marshall, National Myth and Imperial Fantasy: Representations of Britishness on the early eighteenth-century stage , Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, pp. vii + 223, £50.PhilipDavis, Why Victorian Literature Still Matters , Wiley-Blackwell, 2008, pp. 171, £14.99 pb.AndrewMurphy, Shakespeare for the People: Working-class Readers, 1800–1900 , Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. xii + 242, £50.MaryHammond and TowheedShafquat (eds), Publishing in the First World War: Essays in Book History , Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, pp. vii + 241, £45.00SuzanneW. Churchill and McKibleAdam (eds), Little Magazines and Modernism: New Approaches , Ashgate, 2007, pp. xvii +276, £55.MartinFrancis, The Flyer: British Culture and the Royal Air Force 1939–1945 , Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. vii + 266, £30.GavinJones, American Hungers: The Problem of Poverty in U.S. Literature, 1840–1945 , Princeton University Press, 2008, pp. xvi + 228, $35.00.JohnT. Matthews, William Faulkner: Seeing Through the South , Wiley-Blackwell, 2009. pp. x + 309, $79.95.

2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-97
Author(s):  
David Watson ◽  
John Gerard Moore ◽  
Peter Clark ◽  
Ben Lowe ◽  
James Sharpe ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Victorian Literature ◽  
Book History ◽  
Royal Air Force ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
National Myth ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Little Magazines ◽  
The People ◽  
The First World War

scholarly journals The people have spoken: abide? A critical view of the EU’s dramatic referendum (in)experience

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (03) ◽  
pp. 397-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Auer
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
Integration Process ◽  
Critical View ◽  
The Third ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The People ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Understanding

6 December 1992 – 9 February 2014 – 23 June 2016: three national referendums related to the European integration process, the first two in Switzerland, the third in the United Kingdom, with a hardly expected but unmistakably clear anti-European and anti-establishment outcome. The people have spoken, the matter is settled, governments have to abide. So goes the common understanding. In constitutional terms and in the theory of (direct) democracy, however, things may look different.

scholarly journals Deliberative Agenda Setting: Piloting Reform of Direct Democracy in California

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1030-1042 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Fishkin ◽  
Thad Kousser ◽  
Robert C. Luskin ◽  
Alice Siu
Keyword(s):  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
Setting Process ◽  
Legislative Proposal

Can the people deliberate to set the agenda for direct democracy in large scale states? How might such an institution work? The 2011 California Deliberative Poll piloted a solution to this problem helping to produce proposals that went to the ballot and also to the legislature. The paper reports on how this pilot worked and what it suggests about a possible institution to solve the deliberative agenda setting problem. The legislative proposal passed the legislature but the ballot proposition (Prop 31) failed. However, we show that the proposals actually deliberated on by the people might well have passed if not encumbered by additional elements not deliberated on by the public that drew opposition. The paper ends with an outline of how the process of deliberative agenda setting for the initiative might work, vetting proposals once every two years that could get on the ballot for a greatly reduced cost in signature collections. Adding deliberation to the agenda setting process would allow for a thoughtful and informed public will formation to determine the agenda for direct democracy.

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