scholarly journals Popular Participation in the Constitution of the Illiberal State — An Empirical Study of Popular Engagement and Constitutional Reform in Cuba and the Contours of Cuban Socialist Democracy 2.0

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry Catá Backer ◽  
Flora Sapio ◽  
James Korman
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Constitutional Reform ◽  
Popular Participation ◽  
Popular Engagement

Two Forms of Democracy: A Response to Mendelsohn's “Public Brokerage: Constitutional Reform and the Accommodation of Mass Publics”

2000 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 587-592
Author(s):  
Janet Ajzenstat
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Constitutional Reform ◽  
Canadian History ◽  
Popular Participation ◽  
Parliamentary Government ◽  
Mass Publics ◽  
The Many ◽  
Constitution Making

Underlying Matthew Mendelsohn's plea for popular participation in constitution making is a tradition of democratic thought that Jennifer Smith calls “anti–partyism.” This is not the place to describe types of anti–partyism, or trace its roots in Rousseau; I will say only that in Canadian history, and still today, anti–partyism is critical of parliamentary government. In the mid–nineteenth century its proponents argued for the rule of the demos, “the many”; they called their philosophy, “democracy.” They were not calling merely for an extension of the franchise; they criticized the very idea of representative and responsible institutions, contending that responsible parliamentary government empowered “the few” at the expense of “the many.” Today, most scholars regard parliamentary government as a form of democracy, and usually remember that “democracy” has more than one definition. In his article, Mendelsohn unfortunately uses “democracy” to describe only views inclining to anti–partyism.

scholarly journals The Scottish independence referendum and the participatory turn in UK constitution-making: The move towards a constitutional convention

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
SILVIA SUTEU
Keyword(s):  
Direct Democracy ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Constitutional Reform ◽  
The Political ◽  
Constitutional Convention ◽  
Popular Participation ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Scottish Independence ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Constitution Making

Abstract:This article looks at the continued calls for popular participation in UK constitution-making following the 2014 Scottish independence and 2016 Brexit referendums. In particular, it discusses the prospect of a UK constitutional convention being set up to deliberate upon and make recommendations concerning constitutional reform. The article proceeds by first mapping the arguments in favour of setting up such a body in a country with little but growing experience with direct democracy. It then analyses three difficulties surrounding a UK constitutional convention: deciding on a manageable mandate, identifying the political community or communities it is to represent and the method for selecting its membership, and defining the place of such a convention within the UK’s broader constitution-making mechanisms. The article highlights fundamental unknowns in need of clarification before such an instrument could be used while at the same time admitting the limitations of a constitutional convention as a panacea for all of the UK’s constitutional woes. In exploring these questions, the article shows how constitutional reform debates in the UK are no less complex than were those surrounding Scottish independence and have been further compounded by Brexit.

Democracy and constitutional reform: Deliberative versus populist constitutionalism

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 1116-1131
Author(s):  
Simone Chambers
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Constitutional Reform ◽  
Popular Sovereignty ◽  
Popular Participation ◽  
Checks And Balances ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
Important Means ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Citizen’S Participation

Constitutional reform has been an important means to push populist authoritarian agendas in Hungary, Poland, Turkey and Venezuela. The embrace of constitutional means and rhetoric in pursuit of these agendas has led to the growing recognition of ‘populist constitutionalism’ as a contemporary political phenomenon. In all four examples mentioned above, democracy, popular sovereignty and direct plebiscitary appeal to the people is the rhetorical and justificatory framework for constitutional reform. This, I worry, gives democracy a bad name and reinforces the widespread suspicion that citizens should not be directly involved in constitutional reform as popular participation can lead to dangerous majoritarianism and is easily manipulated by elite actors seeking to weaken constitutional checks and balances. But the problem, I argue, is not inherent in citizen’s participation in constitutional reform. In contrast to populist constitutionalism, I develop an idea of deliberative constitutionalism in which citizens can participate in constitution-making and reform without hijacking constitutionalism for majoritarian, nationalist or anti-pluralist ends. Deliberative constitutionalism as I understand it has four features: a Habermasian co-originality thesis that articulates the interdependence of democracy and liberalism mediated by a conception of discourse; a proceduralized idea of popular sovereignty that reduces the tension between appeal to the people and respect for pluralism; the centrality of the public sphere over the voting booth as the cradle of democracy; institutional innovations intended to include citizens in constitutional reform (including through referendums) but avoid majoritarian and populist pathologies.

Individuals without jobs: An empirical study of job-seeking behavior and reemployment.

1996 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Connie R. Wanberg ◽  
John D. Watt ◽  
Deborah J. Rumsey
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Job Seeking ◽  
Seeking Behavior

Psychology: An empirical study of behavior.

1933 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick H. Lund
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study

Belief states: A preliminary empirical study.

1965 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thornton B. Roby
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Belief States

Belief states: A preliminary empirical study

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thornton B. Roby
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Belief States
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