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Direct Democracy in Europe

Developments and Prospects

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Zoltán Tibor Pállinger
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  2. Bruno Kaufmann
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  3. Wilfried Marxer
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  4. Theo Schiller
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  • Direkte Demokratie - Neue Forschung und State of the Art
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Part of the book series: Direct Democracy in Modern Europe (DDME)

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Modern direct democracy has recently become an essential element of political life in many countries in Europe - and worldwide. The initiative and referendum process offers extra channels of participation and can serve as an important supplementary institution in representative democratic systems. This first volume of the new series Direct Democracy in Modern Europe features sixteen systematic and broadly empirical approaches to the study of modern direct democracy within the context of European politics including
- system contexts and effects of the initiative and referendum process
- theoretical approaches and basic values in modern direct democracy
- the quality and institutional design of direct democratic mechanisms
- aspects of information and communication
- institutional performance and economic effectiveness
- transnational challenges and the development of direct democracy in Europe

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-11
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  2. System contexts and system effects of direct democracy - direct democracy in Liechtenstein and Switzerland compared

    • Wilfried Marxer, Zoltán Tibor Pállinger
    Pages 12-29

  3. Direct-democratic procedures as corrective mechanisms in consociational systems or for clientelistic structures—some brief remarks

    • Dirk Berg-Schlosser
    Pages 30-34

  4. A Double Integration Policy Divide: Votes and Interest Group Recommendations in Switzerland

    • Alkuin Kölliker
    Pages 35-51

  5. Direct Democracy and Theories of Participatory Democracy—some observations

    • Theo Schiller
    Pages 52-63

  6. The design determines the quality — some criteria for determining the design and the quality of direct democracy

    • Andreas Gross
    Pages 64-70

  7. Reflections on the social production of incompetent citizens

    • Rolf Büchi
    Pages 71-81

  8. The role of the political elite in Swiss direct-democratic votes

    • Hanspeter Kriesi
    Pages 82-93

  9. Beyond Information and Opinion. The importance of public communication in the referendum process

    • Frank Marcinkowski
    Pages 94-107

  10. On the economic efficiency of direct democracy

    • Lars P. Feld, Gebhard Kirchgässner
    Pages 108-124

  11. Direct Democracy and Citizens’ Information about Politics

    • Matthias Benz, Alois Stutzer
    Pages 125-142

  12. Prospects for Transnational Direct Democracy—Exploring the New European Approach to Citizens’ Power beyond the Nation-State

    • Bruno Kaufmann
    Pages 143-162

  13. Voting Behaviour in the European Constitution Process

    • Palle Svensson
    Pages 163-173

  14. Referendums and Ratification of the EU Constitution

    • Simon Hug, Tobias Schulz
    Pages 174-188

  15. Referendum experience in Slovakia: a long and winding road

    • Erik Láštic
    Pages 189-198

  16. Prospects for Participatory Democracy in the Supranational Constitutionalism of the European Union

    • Victor Cuesta
    Pages 199-206

  17. Databases for (empirical) research on “direct democracy”

    • Volker Mittendorf
    Pages 207-218
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Reviews

"Funktioniert direkte Demokratie nur in kleineren, konsensbasierten Systemen? Ändert ein schrittweises Abgehen von der repräsentativen Demokratie die Beziehung zwischen politischer Elite und Wählerschaft? Wie stellt sich partizipative Demokratie in der Europäischen Union dar? Die Beiträge dieses Sammelbandes beantworten dies durch umfangreiches empirisches Material in zahlreichen Tabellen; und wo sie das nicht leisten können, geben sie zumindest gewichtige Gedankenanregungen." www.zpol.de (Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft), 28.03.2008

About the authors

Dr. Zoltán Tibor Pállinger is Senior Research Fellow at the Liechtenstein Institute, Bendern, Liechtenstein.
Bruno Kaufmann is President of the Initiative & Referendum Institute Europe.
Dr. Wilfried Marxer is Senior Research Fellow at the Liechtenstein Institute, Bendern, Liechtenstein.
Dr. Theo Schiller is Professor at the Department of Political Science, Philipps University Marburg.

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