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Conclusionslexities of decision-making in modern, representative democracies. The aim of this book has been to provide a more complex and up-to-date theoretical approach to how referendums are used and what kinds of function they have in representative democracies.

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Book 1999 perspectives: social choice theory, theories of democracy, a comparative study on 22 democracies, and in-depth case studies of Sweden, Denmark and Switzerland. The referendum is not a unitary phenomenon but it serves various functions and different normative goals in the political systems studied.

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Introductionracy in stable democracies but also many examples of the manipulative abuse of referendums by authoritarian rulers. The political calculations behind the referendums initiated by democratic governments are also often too obvious to avoid cynicism about the institution. Furthermore, the referendum se

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Referendums and the Will of the Majorityecond, problems related to the definition of ‘the will of the majority’ in representative and in direct democracy are dealt with. Third, the meaning of the notion of ‘the will of the majority’ is questioned, as well as theories according to which democracy is about majority rule. The first four sect

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Referendums and Theories of Democracyn in Chapter 2 has shown, the idea of democracy as the fulfilment of the will of the majority is incoherent and even misleading. In this chapter, I will discuss different theories of democracy and summarise the arguments for and against referendums based upon these theories. The relationship between