Referendums and Ethnic Conflict

Called "a world authority on referendums" by the Financial Times, Matt Qvortrup is Senior Lecturer of Comparative Politics at the Center for International Security and Resilience at Cranfield University and Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary British History at King's College London.

List of contents

Introduction

Chapter 1. The History and Logic of Ethnonational Referendums, 1791-1945

Chapter 2. Difference-Managing Referendums

Chapter 3. Secession and Partition

Chapter 4. Ethnonational Referendums in Constitutional Law

Chapter 5. Right-Sizing Referendums

Chapter 6. Difference-Eliminating Referendums: E Pluribus Unum?

Chapter 7. EU Referendums: Nationalism and the Politics of Supranational Integration

Chapter 8. Regulation of Ethnonational Referendums: A Comparative Overview

Conclusion. Patterns and Tendencies in Ethnonational Referendums

Appendix. Legislation and Litigation

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Acknowledgments

About the author

Matt Qvortrup

Summary

One of the world's leading experts in referendums, Qvortrup provides a timely, intensively researched account of the history, practice, and theory of referendums on national issues. The book presents a state-of-the-art political science analysis of issues pertaining to democracy and national self-determination.

Product details

• Authors: Mads Qvortrup, Matt Qvortrup
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.03.2014
• EAN: 9780812245806
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-4580-6
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 237 mm x 23 mm
• Series: National and Ethnic Conflict i; National and Ethnic Conflict in the 21st Century; National and Ethnic Conflict in the 21st Century; National and Ethnic Conflict i
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education