The Palgrave Handbook of European Referendums

This handbook provides an empirically rich analysis of referendums in Europe from the end of the Second World War to the present. It addresses a range of perennial theoretical and legal questions that face policy-makers when they offer citizens the chance to take or influence decisions by referendum, not least whether to accept the 'will of the people'. Taking a multi-disciplinary approach, drawing on historical, philosophical and political science perspectives, the book includes a contextual section on the history of referendums, the theoretical questions underpinning their use, and on constitutional and legal questions about the use of referendums. The empirical sections are divided into those referendums that focus on domestic issues, such as constitutional matters or questions of social policy, and those related to the European Union, including membership referendums and treaty ratification. Julie Smith is Reader in European Politics in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK, and a Fellow in Politics at Robinson College.

Auteur
Julie Smith is Reader in European Politics in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK, and a Fellow in Politics at Robinson College. As Baroness Smith of Newnham, she sits on the Liberal Democrat benches in the House of Lords, where she led for the Liberal Democrats on the European Referendum Bill in 2015 and has served on the International Relations and Defence Committee since 2016. She was Head of the European Programme at Chatham House from 1999 to 2003.

Contenu

1. Introduction (by Julie Smith)

Referendums in Theory and in Practice

2. Referendums and Democratic Theory (by Christopher Lord)

3. History (by Andrew Glencross)

4. The Rules of Referendums (by Alan Renwick & Jess Sargeant)

5. Referendums and Parliaments (by Philip Norton)

6. The Shifting Will of the People: The Case of EU Referendums (by Ece Özlem Atikcan)
7. Two Hundred Years of Direct Democracy: The Referendum in Europe 1793-2018 (by Matt Qvortrop)

National/Domestic Referendums

8. The King versus the People: Lessons from a Belgian Referendum (by Jan Wouters and Alex Andrione-Moylan)

9. The Referendum Experience in France (by Laurence Morel)

10. The Referendum Experience in Switzerland (by Uwe Serdült)

11. The Scottish and Welsh Devolution Referendums of 1979 and 1997 (Jörg Mathias)

12. The 1998 Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement referendums in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland (by Katy Hayward)

13. The United Kingdom parliamentary voting system referendum of 2011 (by Andrew Blick)

14. The Scottish Independence Referendum of 2014 (by John Curtice)

15. The 2017 Catalan Referendum in Comparative Perspective (by Matt Qvortrup)

16. The Irish Referendums on Marriage Equality and Abortion (by Theresa Reidy, Jane Suiter, Johan A. Elkink and David M. Farrell)

17. Referendums, Institutional and Constitutional Change in Italy: The Very 'Crooked Timber' of the Italian Experience (by PierVincenzo Uleri)

18. Luxembourg: The 2015 Referendum on Voting Rights for Foreign Residents (by Léonie de Jonge and Ralph Petry)

19. Turkey's Constitutional Referendum: The 16 April 2017 Referendum in Historical Perspective (by Ersin Kalaycolu and Gülnur Kocapnar)

EU-related Referendums

20. The Irish and Danish 1972 referendums on EC Accession (by Palle Svensson)

21. Referendums: Norway 1972 & 1994 (by John Erik Fossum & Guri Rosén)

22. In or Out of 'Europe'? The 1975 and 2016 UK Referendums on Membership (by Julie Smith)

23. The EFTA Enlargement (by Lise Rye)

24. EU Accession Referendums (by Fernando Mendez and Mario Mendez)

25. 'If You Can't Join Them' Explaining No Votes in Danish EU Referendums (by Derek Beach)

26. The 2003 Swedish Euro Referendum (by Henrik Oscarsson)

27. Referendums on EU Treaty Reform: Revisiting the Result in Second Referendums (by Brigid Laffan)

28. The French and Dutch Block the Constitutional Treaty (by Claudia Sternberg)

29. Swiss Votes on Europe (by Clive Church)

30. The Greek Referendum on Bailouts 2015 (by Lina Papadopoulou)

31. Hungary's EU Refugee Relocation Quota Referendum: 'Let's Send a Message to Brussels' (by Agnes Batory)

32. The Dutch Referendum on the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement (by Joost van den Akker)

33. Issue Voting in Danish EU Referendums (by Palle Svensson)