La question du référendum
First Edition
The referendum is a political tool that provokes deep distrust among elites. Yet if it is well designed, a referendum can accompany certain major political decisions, help to create a relationship of trust between citizens and institutions, and may also play a central role in the experimental forms of particularity at the local levels. Read More
Often criticized, particularly in France, the referendum is a political tool that provokes deep distrust among elites. It is accused of being the negation of democracy masquerading as the real thing. It is said that although it claims to resolve crises through popular legitimacy, most often it actually aggravates those crises. As the incarnation of majority rule, it is also seen as suffering more than representative democracy from a minority bias.
Indeed, although it is simple – even simplistic (asking for a yes or no answer) – a referendum is a complex institution that is heavily conditioned by the modalities of its organization (wording of the question, campaign rules, existence or not of participation quotas, qualified majorities, jurisdictional oversight etc.). There no one referendum but rather a myriad of types of referenda, all liable to lead to very different, or even diametrically opposed, results.
Yet if it is well designed, a referendum can accompany certain major political decisions and help to create a relationship of trust between citizens and institutions. It may also play a central role in the experimental forms of participative democracy underway at the national and particularly at the local levels.
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Specifications
- Publisher
- Presses de Sciences Po
- Author
- Laurence Morel,
- Collection
- Nouveaux Débats
- Language
- French
- Tags
- , , ,
- Publisher Category
- > Political Science > French Politics
- Publisher Category
- > Political Science > Political Life
- Publisher Category
- > Fields > Political science
- Publisher Category
- > Political Science
- Publisher Category
- > Politics
- Publisher Category
- > Society
- BISAC Subject Heading
- POL000000 POLITICAL SCIENCE
- BIC subject category (UK)
- J Society & social sciences > JP Politics & government
- Title First Published
- 28 November 2019
- ONIX Adult Audience Rating
- Any adult audience
- Type of Work
- Monograph
Paperback
- Publication Date
- 24 September 2013
- ISBN-13
- 978-2-7246-3307-8
- Extent
- Main content page count : 200
- Code
- 9782724633078
- Weight
- 342 grams
- List Price
- 25.00 €
- ONIX XML
- Version 2.1, Version 3
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Contents
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Olivia Aubriot, Jeanne Riaux : Savoirs sur l'eau : les techniques à l’appui des relations de pouvoir ?
Magalie Bourblanc : Les trajectoires bifurquées de la « Réserve écologique » sud-africaine : d’une logique aménagiste à une logique écologique
Aziz Ballouche, Aude Nuscia Taïbi : Le « dessèchement » de l’Afrique sahélienne : un leitmotiv du discours d’expert revisité
Nora Manon Müller : Adjusting the Lens of GDP per Cubic Meter of Water for Jordanian Agriculture
Rodrigo Constante Martins : La scientifisation de la politique dans la gestion de l’eau au Brésil
Christine Récalt, Lôra Rouvière, Mhamed Mahdane, Mustafa Errahj, Thierry Ruf : Aménager l’espace, canaliser l’eau et orienter le pouvoir. Réflexion sur deux modèles inédits d’aménagements fonciers radioconcentriques en France et au Maroc
Gwenaelle Janty : Capacité d’adaptation des pratiques traditionnelles de gestion et de partage de l’eau dans l’oasis de Figuig (Maroc)
Kyra Grieco, Carmen Salazar-Soler : Les enjeux techniques et politiques dans la gestion et le contrôle de l’eau : le cas du projet Minas Conga au nord du Pérou
Barbara Casciarri : Systèmes sociotechniques, savoirs locaux et idéologies de l’intervention. Deux exemples de gestion de l’eau chez les pasteurs du Soudan et du Maroc