Referendums as Representative Democracy

Leah Trueblood

Worcester College

Referendums as Representative Democracy

Leah Trueblood

In referendums on fundamental constitutional issues, do the people come together to make decisions instead of representatives? This book argues that they do not. It offers an alternative theory of referendums whereby they are one of many ordinary ways that voters give direction to their representatives. The book argues that referendums are better understood as exercises in representative democracy.

Challenging the current treatment of referendums in processes of constitutional change both in the United Kingdom and around the world, the book strengthens the case for referendums by showing how they can support, rather than undermine, institutions of representative democracy.

Leah Trueblood is Career Development Fellow in Public Law at Worcester College, Oxford, UK.

Apr 2024   |   9781509940806   |   168pp   |   Hbk   |                   RRP: £85

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