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List of illustrations | p. xi |
List of contributors | p. xiv |
Series editor's preface | p. xv |
Acknowledgements | p. xvii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Referendums and models of democracy | p. 15 |
From people's veto to instrument of elite consensus: the referendum experience in Ireland | p. 17 |
Stabilizing or destabilizing? Direct-democratic instruments in different political systems | p. 34 |
Ideological positions and the referendum in the Netherlands | p. 56 |
The demand for referendums: strategies and ideologies | p. 75 |
To structure political conflict: the institutionalization of referendums on European integration in the Nordic countries | p. 77 |
Elite motives for initiating referendums: avoidance, addition and contradiction | p. 98 |
The surge of referendums and the New Politics approach | p. 117 |
Referendum campaigns and voter behaviour | p. 137 |
Campaign tactics and outcomes in referendums: a comparative analysis | p. 139 |
Intense but useless? Public debate and voting factors in two referendums in Spain | p. 162 |
Checks and balances in Swiss direct democracy | p. 186 |
Conclusions | p. 207 |
Index | p. 220 |
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