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The limits and legitimacy of referendums / edited by Richard Albert and Richard Stacey.

Contributor(s): Albert, Richard (Law professor) [editor.] | Stacey, Richard [editor.]Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022Description: vi, 304 pages : illustrationsContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780198867647Subject(s): ReferendumDDC classification: 328.23
Contents:
I. Why referendums? -- The strange case of the package deal : amendments and replacements in constitutional reform / Zachary Elkins and Alexander Hudson -- Discretionary referendums in constitutional amendment / Richard Albert -- The unnecessary referendum : popular sovereignty in the constitutional interregnum / Richard Stacey -- II. Who are the people? -- Referendums in federal states : territorial pluralism and the challenge of direct democracy / Stephen Tierney -- Referendum and self-determination in Catalonia / Antoni Abat i Ninet -- Referendums and autocratization : explaining constitutional referendums in the post-soviet space / Anna Fruhstorfer -- III. Are the people sovereign -- Brexit and two roles for referendums in the United Kingdom / Leah Trueblood -- Deciding on the future : first nations ratification processes, crown policies, and the making of modern treaties / Janna Promislow -- Plebiscites and peace : comparative lessons from the 2016 Colombian plebiscite for peace / Carlos Bernal -- Are the people the masters? Constitutional referendums in Ireland / David Kenny and Aileen Kavanagh.
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Book House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey 328.23 LIM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 021991

I. Why referendums? -- The strange case of the package deal : amendments and replacements in constitutional reform / Zachary Elkins and Alexander Hudson -- Discretionary referendums in constitutional amendment / Richard Albert -- The unnecessary referendum : popular sovereignty in the constitutional interregnum / Richard Stacey -- II. Who are the people? -- Referendums in federal states : territorial pluralism and the challenge of direct democracy / Stephen Tierney -- Referendum and self-determination in Catalonia / Antoni Abat i Ninet -- Referendums and autocratization : explaining constitutional referendums in the post-soviet space / Anna Fruhstorfer -- III. Are the people sovereign -- Brexit and two roles for referendums in the United Kingdom / Leah Trueblood -- Deciding on the future : first nations ratification processes, crown policies, and the making of modern treaties / Janna Promislow -- Plebiscites and peace : comparative lessons from the 2016 Colombian plebiscite for peace / Carlos Bernal -- Are the people the masters? Constitutional referendums in Ireland / David Kenny and Aileen Kavanagh.

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