This book focuses on sovereignty referendums, which have been used throughout different historical periods of democratization, decolonization, devolution, seces

The use of referendums around the world has grown remarkably in the past thirty years and, in particular, referendums are today deployed more than ever in the s

As the referendum becomes a more regular component of decision making, it leaves few, if any, institutions, processes and values of democracy untouched. Politic

Updated edition of : Referendums. c1978.