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ISBN 9789078820031 Jos Verhulst & Arjen Nijeboer “Direct Democracy: Facts and Arguments about the Introduction of Initiative and Referendum” Translation: David Calderhead Correction: Paul Carline Layout: Stephan Arnold © The copyright of this publication is arranged by Creative Commons license “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5”. You are free to copy and distribute the work under the following conditions: • Attribution: You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author. • Noncommercial. You may not use this work for commercial purposes. No derivative works: You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work. For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this work. Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder. More Information: www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/
Acknowledgements We would like to express our grateful thanks to the following people and bodies for their contribution to the creation of this book. Heiko Dittmer (Antwerp) and Bert Penninckx (Pellenberg) for their support for this project. Michael Efler (Berlin), Matthias Leimeister (Berlin), Michael Macpherson (Berlin), and Frank Rehmet (Hamburg) for their assistance with the research. Gerald Häfner (Munich), Paul Carline (Edinburgh), and Michaël Bauwens (Antwerp), respectively, for their contribution of articles to the German, English and Dutch editions. Stephan Arnold (Halle) for his design. Bruno Kaufmann (Falun) for the opportunity he provided to present this book at a series of conferences for the Initiative & Referendum Institute Europe, of which he is director, in the four corners of Europe. A special word of thanks is due to Aimee Lind Adamiak (Ås), Blaž Babič (Ljubljana), Thomas Benedikter (Bolzano), David Calderhead (Amsterdam), Nicolas E. Fischer (Copenhagen), Amalie Foss (Copenhagen), Louise C. Larsen (Copenhagen), Mira Hettesova (London), Daniel Kmiecik (Lille), Andreas Linke (Berlin), Juan Carlos Madronal (Madrid), Magdalena Musial-Karg (Poznan) and Lilia Zaharieva (Aachen) for their extensive translation work, and to Paul Carline (Edinburgh), María Jesus Garcia (Madrid), Ronald Pabst (Cologne) and Bartek Wisnewski (Warsaw) for their often extensive proofreading and corrections. Further thanks go to all the people and organisations in Europe who are contributing to the distribution of this publication. Finally, we would also like to express our heartfelt thanks to everyone whose donations made this publication possible. Antwerp and Amsterdam, May 2007 Jos Verhulst and Arjen Nijeboer
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Page 6 and 7: Contents Acknowledgements . . . . .
Page 8 and 9: Indeed, a majority of people in Wes
Page 10 and 11: 1-1: Do people want direct democrac
Page 12 and 13: 2. What is democracy? Democracy var
Page 14 and 15: The public assembly is not practica
Page 16 and 17: Hierarchy of laws A law that is app
Page 18 and 19: 2-1: The public assembly. The publi
Page 20 and 21: a municipality close to Reutlingen,
Page 22 and 23: 3. Federalism, subsidiarity and soc
Page 24 and 25: Democracy is pre-eminently suited t
Page 26 and 27: as coinciding with the communal int
Page 28 and 29: Between the hammer and the anvil: h
Page 30 and 31: in which ethnically or religiously
Page 32 and 33: 3-1: NIMBY - or citizenship and dem
Page 34 and 35: tically affected his or her life an
Page 36 and 37: 4. The democratic person Democracy
Page 38 and 39: is identical in all humans - as ide
Page 40 and 41: People need food, but also the long
Page 42 and 43: a learning relationship, they do no
Page 44 and 45: The availability of the citizens’
Page 46 and 47: Another question is: how do people
Page 48 and 49: these issues. But popular initiativ
Page 50 and 51: Do citizens by definition always vo
Page 52 and 53: • Frey, Kucher and Stutzer (2001)
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in the autumn of 1977, when the cam
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has been spent in California on cit
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the proposition and the highest off
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tives immediately after the introdu
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Partly thanks to its successes in B
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• Provide the media with document
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Lithuania This Baltic republic has
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6. Possible objections to direct de
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national debt: debt is incurred to
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1971 - through a referendum in whic
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tion, the only way initiatives make
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Suppose that a citizen supports a c
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of these states with a relatively e
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to drug addicts, the protection of
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ut ultimately no generally accepted
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or on principle. Voluntary particip
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The parliamentary system The name
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An older Act (the 1972 Local Govern
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Bibliography R. Abers (2000), “In
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B. Kaufmann / R. Büchi / N. Braun
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W. Weihrauch (1989), “Der freie M
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