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1 online resource (xiii, 237 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Comparative public law treatise
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Comparative public law treatise (Series)
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Intro; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 The Historical Evolution of Direct Democracy; 1.1 Introduction; 1.1.1 The Explosion of Direct Democracy in Contemporary Systems; 1.1.2 Arguments against and for Direct Democracy; 1.1.3 The Instruments of Direct Democracy; 1.1.4 The Origins of Direct Democracy: From Antiquity to the Swiss Cantons; 1.2 The Period of Democratic Revolutions and the Nineteenth Century in France and the United States; 1.2.1 The United States; 1.2.1.1 The American Colonies |
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1.2.1.2 The Revolutionary Period: Declaration of Independence, State Constitutions, Articles of Confederation, the Federalist Papers, and the United States Constitution1.2.1.3 The 'Revolution of 1800' and 'Jacksonian Democracy' (1829-1841); 1.2.1.4 The Progressive Movement; 1.2.1.5 Direct Democracy in Oregon; 1.2.2 France; 1.2.2.1 L'ancien Régime; 1.2.2.2 Les Lumières: Montesquieu and Rousseau; 1.2.2.3 The Revolutionary Period: Sieyès, Revolutionary Constitutions and Les San-culottes; 1.2.2.4 The Heritage of Bonapartism: Plebiscitary Democracy |
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1.2.2.5 The Nineteenth Century: The Republic Submerged, Under Siege, and Triumphant1.2.2.6 Departmental and Local Levels; 1.3 Direct Democracy in the Italian Risorgimento and European post-World War I Constitutions; 1.3.1 The Spanish Constitution of 1931; 1.4 Plebiscites and Direct Democracy in authoritarian regimes; 1.4.1 Direct Democracy during Nazism and Fascism; 1.4.2 Direct Democracy during the Franco Period; 2 Referendum and Direct Democracy in Europe; 2.1 France; 2.1.1 The Power of Initiative; 2.1.2 The National Referendum in the Constitution of 1958; 2.1.2.1 The Legislative Referendum |
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2.1.2.2 The Constituent Referendum2.1.2.3 The Referendum in the International Domain; 2.1.3 The National Referendum in Action; 2.1.4 The Local Referendum; 2.1.5 Participative Democracy and Neighbourhood Democracy; 2.2 Italy; 2.2.1 The Referendum in the Constituent Assembly; 2.2.2 The Troubled Implementation of Referendums in Italy; 2.2.3 Constitutional Referendums and Regional Referendums; 2.3 Germany; 2.3.1 The Choice for Representative Democracy; 2.3.2 The Referendum for Territorial Changes of the Länder; 2.3.3 Direct Democracy in the Länder; 2.3.4 Current Trends; 2.4 Spain |
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2.4.1 Setting the Stage: the Political Significance of Direct Democracy and the Equivocal Treatment of the Referendum by the Spanish Legislature2.4.2 The Institutions of Direct Democracy in the Process of Drafting the Constitution: The Referendum and the Popular Legislative Initiative. The Legislative Process; A The constitutional procedure of Article 92 CE in the work of the Constituent Assembly and the different types of referendum.; B The popular legislative popular initiative |
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2.4.3 The Practice of the Referendum in Spanish Political Life. Current Problems of the Referendum in Spain: ""Right to decide"" and Democracy: its Political Implications for the Mass Society |
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People (Constitutional law)
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People (Constitutional law) |
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Constitutional law.
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Constitutional law. |
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Direct democracy.
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Direct democracy. |
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Referendum.
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Referendum. |
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Comparative law.
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Comparative law. |
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Palici di Suni Prat, Elisabetta, author.
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Rogoff, Martin A., author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: García, Eloy, 1958- Direct democracy in comparative law. The Hague : Eleven International Publishing, [2018] 9789462368446 (OCoLC)1023532718 |
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9789462748491 (electronic book) |
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9462748497 (electronic book) |
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