Constitutionalism and participative democracy on electoral mass-market

Ivan Pankevych () and Iryna Sofinska ()
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Ivan Pankevych: Doctor habilitation of Science, Professor of the Constitutional, European and International Public Law Department at the University of Zielona Góra, Poland; Professor of the Constitutional Law and Sectoral Subjects Department at the National University of Water and Environmental Engineering, Ukraine
Iryna Sofinska: Doctor habilitation of Science, Associate Professor of the Constitutional and International Law Department at the National University “Lviv Politechnic†, Ukraine

Juridical Tribune - Review of Comparative and International Law, 2020, vol. 10, issue Special Issue, 73-89

Abstract: In this article, we would concentrate mostly on constitutionalism and participatory democracy, and citizenship as a legal precondition for both. The main objective of this study is to examine the role of citizenship in participative democracy. Either as possible substantial ideological baggage or a package of rights, duties, and privileges? As a full membership in a particular state based on kinship? Or as an 'everyday plebiscite' rooted in full integration and inclusiveness? Specific attention was paid to two target groups of people concerned (non-resident citizens and non-citizen residents) and their realization of the right to vote in the local elections and referendum, as well as, to stand as a candidate to the local legislature in the European Union Member States and Ukraine. A separate part of the article is dedicated to local referendum issues in Ukraine (1991-2018). In the study, we managed to apply a few mixed research methods to obtain specific scientific results (observation, surveys, secondary data analyses, etc.). The present study related to constitutionalism and participatory democracy, their vision, and outcomes should be viewed as a follow-up to the one previously published research in Ukrainian. This article might be used by bachelor and master students of law faculties, practitioners in the field of constitutional and EU law, citizenship, and migration, electoral law.

Keywords: constitutionalism; participative democracy; citizenship; local elections and referendums; right to vote; right to be elected; Ukraine. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K10 K16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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