Overview
- Offers an exhaustive and global account of referendums to date
- Proves to be a timely reference work for interested readers in the wake of the recent referendums in Britain, Hungary and Italy
- Continues the legacy of David Butler’s and Austin Ranney’s Referendums Around the World (1994 and 1997)
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
Keywords
- history of referendums around the world
- Brexit referendum
- Indyref
- Scottish independence referendum
- Colombian peace plan referendum
- populism and democracy
- populism and referendums
- history of direct democracy
- referendums in Africa
- referendums in North America
- referendums in Latin America
- referendums in Europe
- referendums in Australasia
- debates surrounding referendums
- theory and practice of referendums
- Hungarian refugee referendum
- Croatian gay marriage referendum
- Irish gay marriage referendum
- US gun control referendums
- Italian constitutional referendum
- democracy
About this book
This book provides a comprehensive summary and analysis of all the nationwide referendums since 1793. Referendums are ubiquitous and they are increasingly becoming vehicles for political change – or sometimes vehicles of conservatism. In 2016, for example, the voters in the United Kingdom caused a major upheaval when they voted for leaving the European Union. Later in the same year, a majority of the voters in Colombia rejected a peace plan carefully negotiated by the political elites to end decades of civil war. Were these decisions prudent? Why were these issues submitted to referendums? Why did the majority of voters vote against the governments’ recommendations? Have ‘the people’ had grown tired of the old political class? Was this a new tendency? These are some of the questions addressed in this new edition, which will be compulsory reading for anyone interested in or concerned about populism and democracy.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Matt Qvortrup is Professor of Political Science at Coventry University, UK and Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts. His other books include Referendums and Ethnic Conflict (2014) and Angela Merkel: Europe’s Most Influential Leader (2016).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Referendums Around the World
Book Subtitle: With a Foreword by Sir David Butler
Editors: Matt Qvortrup
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57798-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-57797-5Published: 06 September 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-57798-2Published: 16 August 2017
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVIII, 307
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Popular Science in Political Science and International Relations, Democracy, Political History, British Politics, European Politics, US Politics