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2011 powers referendumThis report will examine two referendums in Wales鈥攖he 1997 devolution referendum and the upcoming 'powers referendum' of 2011. It cites seven distinct pressures which are relevant to both referendums and draws lessons from the experience of the wafer-thin success of the ...
referendums; constitutions; citizens' initiatives; participation Are the voters capable of making complex decisions and informed choices in referendums? Do referendums and other forms of direct democracy provide mechanisms for citizen deliberation? Why do dictators like Hitler and Pinochet use referendums...
There are three advantages in such referendums: Peace is secured in the short-term without the risk of a public backlash; governments are incentivised to engage constructively with local communities to win their future support; political institutions adapt to new conditions arbitrate...
How can we, in our businesses, rise above the problems of the UK’s referendum and instead focus on sharing the multiple truths in data? Are your employees able to communicate multiple opinions, based on the multiple truths in a data set? We need to move beyond “lies, damn lies...
Critics say it infringes so much on Swiss sovereignty that it would never win a referendum under the Swiss system of direct democracy. A Commission spokesman told a news briefing that von der Leyen awaited more information from the Swiss side. MORE: Places the U.S. Govern...
referendums or trade wars with China. They don’t have Spotify playlists for their workouts. They don’t have books on the decline and fall of turtle empires. They don’t have internet shopping or self-service checkouts. Other animals don’t have progress, they say. But the human mind ...
British Prime Minister David Cameron, who said Friday that he would resign his role as a result of the voting results, indicated before the historic referendum that if the people of the United Kingdom decided to leave the European Union, he would quickly give the European Council notice of th...
The ATR indicator shows the average range of the last fourteen bars for the timeframe displayed. It is clear to see the average range of each weekly bar shown above increased around the Brexit referendum announcement in 2016 and again around the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. During high impact...
But if Reform UK were to win the next general election that figure could near the 60% level some believe should be the tipping point for another referendum. The figure rose from 50% in the last Norstat poll in January. The highest that support for independence has reache...