Referendum

Review The book Referendums and Representative Democracy: Responsivness, accountability and deliberation by Maija Setälä and Theo Schiller analyses how referendums affect representative democracies and their institutions. The book is broken into the three parts: referendums and models of democracy, the demand for referendums: strategies and ideologies, and referendum campaigns and voter behavior. The book attempts to take a nonbiased approach to analyzing the role of referendums in…

Initiatives and referendums essay Initiatives and referendums are an important part in our government. Having the choice to let us (the people) voices be heard gives a broad view of things that need to be changed whether it is a certain law that needs to be passed or denied we have the power to make an impact. When people have the opportunity to speak their mind specifically through election it will make them want to be more engaged and informed as to actually what changes need to be…

of our House of Representative Members is to introduce a referendum, which is a practice of democracy in which a group of chosen electorates answer the political matter in the form of yes-no questions. Should we utilize referendum as our decision-making tool, we will face another dilemma of whether we should choose a binding or a non-binding referendum. Since these political instruments…

people in a series of referendums and created the composition of the australian parliament, it shows how the parliament works, what power it has, power sharing between the federal and state parliaments and also the role high court and executive. Change is necessary in the constitution but it is not urgent. Referendum and high court interpretation allows the parliament to amend the constitution. Body paragraph 1 The Australian constitution can be amended by referendums according to…

1995 Referendum CHC 2D8 Canadian History For Mr. Makarovski By: Baoning Chen Due Date: June 4, 2015 The 1995 referendum is…

from the Catholic World (1861-1974)”, Daniela Saresella argues that following World War II, the “processes of secularization” (Saresella, 411) that were altering the western world, took hold in Italy and set the stage for the 1974 referendum on divorce. The referendum was an integral moment as it marked the first division of the Catholic world and allowed Catholic citizens the understanding that they were not required to vote in alignment with the Catholic Democracy, the political party in power…

There is a famous quote on smoking that goes “Smoking kills. If you’re killed, you have lost a very important part of your life.” This quote is humorous yet dark in context. In 2010 our state of South Dakota past a referendum smoking ban (also known as Referendum 12) to support the health of the citizens of our state. According to BallotPedia “The referred law broadens the State’s ban on smoking to apply to all restaurants, bars, package liquor stores, Deadwood casinos and video lottery…

questions: What is the source about, and what does it say about its subject?) A. Source A, explores post the 1967 Referendum, in terms of addressing the misconceptions and generalisations that have been produced by scholars, the media and journalists, of whom have highlighted the success of the referendum falsely. Particularly, false emphasis of the change (before and after the referendum), results of, ‘full-citizenship’ for Aboriginals, equality in Australia, as well as, Aboriginals also…

the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC), which collected data from England, Wales and Northern Ireland. According to the NPCC there were over 4,800 reported hate crimes logged in July 2015, however, immediately following the outcome of the EU referendum…

which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch” (Oxford dictionaries). So republic is an independent country chosen by the people and this is called referendum. So should Australia become a republic not a constitution monarchy? I believe yes it should become a republic because it is currently overruled by the queen who is our head of state and she is represented by govern general (GG) appointed…