Research Note: Are Referendums Controlled and Pro‐hegemonic?

Mads Qvortrup

Political Studies, 2000, vol. 48, issue 4, 821-826

Abstract: Are most referendums controlled and pro‐hegemonic, i.e. do governments only submit issues to referendums if they are certain that they will win (as asserted by Lijphart, Butler and Ranney)? This paper shows conclusively that the constitutional referendums in Western polities have performed the functions of constitutional safeguards, and that the governments have been unsuccessful in their attempts to control the referendum.

Date: 2000
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