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Jos Verhulst & Arjen Nijeboer Direct Democracy Facts and Arguments about the Introduction of Initiative and Referendum Democracy International Brussels 2007 www.democracy-international.org www.democratie.nu www.referendumplatform.nl
Page 1: Jos Verhulst & Arjen Nijeboer Direc
Page 5 and 6: Acknowledgements We would like to e
Page 7 and 8: 1. The hidden power of democracy Th
Page 9 and 10: In 1992, Professor De Wachter caref
Page 11 and 12: ingness of various elites in German
Page 13 and 14: The right of initiative The right o
Page 15 and 16: der your money to. You hand over yo
Page 17 and 18: On the contrary, it is the parliame
Page 19 and 20: items on the agenda themselves, and
Page 21 and 22: succeeded: the turnout was less tha
Page 23 and 24: arity idea of the Pope and the Cath
Page 25 and 26: neither are the politicians. Politi
Page 27 and 28: last 20 years points to the inadequ
Page 29 and 30: McWorld is thus not a merely econom
Page 31 and 32: American life. By the time of the t
Page 33 and 34: to donate for intrinsic reasons can
Page 35 and 36: ment would get more decision-making
Page 37 and 38: the appearance of logical correctne
Page 39 and 40: ture out to get something done by a
Page 41 and 42: swim against the stream of public o
Page 43 and 44: Perhaps there are two reasons why A
Page 45 and 46: ment (often indiscriminate), family
Page 47 and 48: 5. Lessons from direct democracy in
Page 49 and 50: Until then, the ubiquitous army had
Page 51 and 52: The municipalities levy their own t
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• People who launch a citizens’
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Following this criticism, the US po
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The Supreme Court did accept limits
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Main-Post newspaper prophesied: “
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that the system could hardly be use
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5-1: The art of the citizens’ ini
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it received 90 petitions. There is
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accession to the European Union. In
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In this context, one must not forge
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agenda and each time the coalition
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the conditions for validity are adj
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This duty must undoubtedly be consi
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hospital system (Beedham, 1996). Al
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majority are not permitted. The law
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ori case that social debate will be
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erendum.’ But first I acted. I ac
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7. Direct democracy in the United K
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creased to such an extent that it m
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Initiative, through which people ca
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M. Elchardus (1999), “Democratie
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R. Penrose (1994), “Shadows of th
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About the authors Jos Verhulst (194
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