Titlebook: Direct Democracy and Minorities; Wilfried Marxer (Political Scientist, Directors) Book 2012 VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften | Springer

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73730-0ct between popular decision-making by initiative and referendum and the requirement of interethnic consociational democratic procedures? The article focuses on the existing tension and supposed contradictions between procedures of direct democracy (initiative and referendum) and the protection of th

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73730-0 and the popular referendum at the level of the US states endangers the interests of structurally weak minorities. The pass rate for propositions concerning structurally weak minorities is considerably higher than the success rate for initiatives in general. Nevertheless, the American experience doe

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Pentecostalism in the Sub-Sahara provided for a constitutional safeguard, requiring only a simple majority to legitimise constitutional change. Yet an examination of its adjudication of three different issues shows no empirical connection between the referendum as a decision-making method, and majority rule. Rather party politics

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137027504this event as clear evidence for the negative effects of direct democracy on minority rights. This book chapter investigates whether there are similar effects observable in Switzerland before the minaret ban, by reviewing recent literature in this research area. The results are ambivalent. On the on

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Independence, Islamism, and Modernity the people and the power of the prince. The people exerts its power through representative organs on the one hand – a single chamber parliament and an indirectly elected government – and by direct-democratic rights on the other. Of the direct-democratic rights the most important are the binding and

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Independence, Islamism, and Modernitye first part of this article examines the functions and effects of direct democracy in general and in theory. When considering the effects of direct democracy on politics, the formation of state and society, the political habitus, and the public sphere, it is important to distinguish between the dif

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137027504n argued that people’s rights show indirect effects in addition to the mere results of popular votes. Thus, popular votes are not only decision-making processes, they also have indirect effects on the political system, most notably the activation of a public debate about social issues. The present s

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https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137027504 of pledging popular votes on Europe in other countries. In particular, such transnational spillovers may work through two pathways: they affect the standards of what counts as appropriate ways of deciding European issues in other countries’ domestic arenas and they intensify the party political con

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