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Power to the People(s): Referendums in Deeply Divided Societies

Joanne McEvoy, Letting “The People(s)” Decide: Peace Referendums and Power-Sharing Settlements, 25 Democratization 864 (2018). Hoi Kong Referendums have been used to decide divisive constitutional questions in polities around the world.  In some cases, the relevant divisions run deeply along ethnic … Continue reading

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Levy on Referendums in Conflit Societies

Ron Levy (Australian National University) has posted Shotgun Referendums: Popular Deliberation and Constitutional Settlement in Conflict Societies (Melbourne University Law Review, Vol. 41, No. 3, 2018) on SSRN.  Here is the abstract: Referendums are now common in ‘conflict societies’ — societies where … Continue reading

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