Tierney

CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUMS OCON C

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: ACADEMIC
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 693g
• ISBN-13: 9780199592791
• ISBN-10: 0199592799
• Artikelnr.: 34554330

Autorenporträt

Stephen Tierney is Professor of Constitutional Theory, School of Law, University of Edinburgh and Director of the Edinburgh Centre for Constitutional Law. He received a British Academy Senior Research Fellowship for the project upon which this book is based. He has published seven other books including Constitutional Law and National Pluralism (Oxford University Press 2004).

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction
* 2: Beyond Representation: Constitutional Referendums and Deliberative
Democracy
* 3: Framing 'the People': Constitutional Referendums and the Demos
Question
* 4: Elite Control and the Referendum Process
* 5: Control and Constitutional Referendums: Internal Sovereignty
* 6: Control and Constitutional Referendums: External Influences
* 7: Participation in Constitutional Referendums
* 8: Framing the Substantive Issue in Constitutional Referendums
* 9: Referendums and Constitutional Decision-Making
* 10: Conclusions