Thesis
The uses and abuses of referendums
- Abstract:
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Referendums, especially referendums with constitutional content, are often treated as exceptional acts. They are treated as exceptional in a democratic sense, because they are thought to go beyond the usual democratic processes and institutions. Since referendums are thought to be exceptional in a democratic sense they are treated as exceptional in a constitutional sense too. The political and legal significance attributed to votes in referendums far surpasses that of elections, protests, ...
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Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation
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Bibliographic Details
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
Item Description
- UUID:
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- Deposit date:
- 2018-11-09
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- Copyright holder:
- Trueblood, L
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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