CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2011
| Author | Akkaya, Tugba |
|---|---|
| Title | A NORMATIVE INQUIRY to the PLACE of REFERENDUM in DEMOCRATIC PRACTICE |
| Summary | This study provides a normative inquiry to the place of referendum in democratic practice. Its primary aim and contribution is the presentation of the political legitimacy assessment for a particular form of decision making in democracy, which in this case is referendum. For that reason, political legitimacy of referenda is evaluated with a particular model that is advanced with reference to the literature. The model encapsulates both procedural and epistemic dimensions of referendum. The former dimension is evaluated with respect to criteria of political equality and political responsibility while the latter is assessed with respect to epistemic benchmark of tyranny of majority. The evaluation enables to capture the contemporary complexities of referenda in representative democracies by considering its procedure and outcome. In its concluding remarks, this thesis states that considering both procedural and epistemic evaluations, political legitimacy of referendum is weak due to vulnerabilities that lead to conflicts with the criteria of the model of this study. |
| Supervisor | Zoltán Miklósi |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2011/akkaya_tugba.pdf |
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