Constitutional Referendums : The Theory and Practice of Republican Deliberation
ISBN: 9780199592791 | 0199592799
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 5/18/2012
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The use of referendums around the world has grown remarkably in the past thirty years and, in particular, referendums are today deployed more than ever in the settlement of constitutional questions, even in countries with little or no tradition of direct democracy. This is the first book by a constitutional theorist to address the implications of this development for constitutional democracy in a globalizing age, when many of the older certainties surrounding sovereignty and constitutional authority are coming under scrutiny. The book identifie... MORE
| The Referendum Revival and the Constitutional Moment | p. 1 |
| Beyond Representation: Constitutional Referendums and Deliberative Democracy | p. 19 |
| Framing 'the People': Constitutional Referendums and the Demos | p. 58 |
| Elite Control and the Referendum Process | p. 98 |
| The Referendum Challenge to Constitutional Sovereignty | p. 129 |
| External Influences on Constitutional Referendums | p. 153 |
| Participa... MORE | p. 185 |
| Framing the Substantive Issue in Constitutional Referendums | p. 226 |
| Referendums and Constitutional Decision-Making | p. 260 |
| Constitutional Referendums: The Deliberative Challenge | p. 285 |
| Appendix: Referendums from. 1898-2011 cited in the book | p. 305 |
| Bibliography | p. 313 |
| Index | p. 339 |
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Stephen Tierney is Professor of Constitutional Theory, School of Law, University of Edinburgh and Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law. He received a British Academy Senior Research Fellowship for the project upon which this book is based. He has published seven other books including Constitutional Law and National Pluralism (Oxford University Press 2004).
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