Questions tagged [referendum]
Questions related to a general vote by the electorate on a single political question which has been referred to them for a direct decision. This tag should be used alongside the country when for a specific referendum.
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Has a Supreme Court ever referred a constitutional question to a public referendum?
This question is about countries in which the Supreme Court (or Constitutional Court) has the power of judicial review — the authority to strike down legislation passed by parliament.
When a law is ...
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What prevents a Greenland referendum? [closed]
This is regarding Trump's push for acquisition of Greenland and Danish refusal to part with it. What's wrong with conducting a referendum of Greenland residents on what THEY want: be Danish, be ...
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Examples of countries that decided whether to change their voting rule?
In the year 2011, the United Kingdom held the so-called “Alternative Vote Referendum” to decide whether to replace its “first-past-the-post” method for the “alternative vote” method. In that ...
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Is it customary to hold off recognition of a state that seceded from another country through a referendum?
WASHINGTON -- Even if Quebec voters had said "Oui" to independence in
1995, the United States wasn't going to say "Yes" to immediately
recognizing the new country or including it ...
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Are there fewer street protests in Switzerland than in other democratic countries?
Street protests are a wasteful activity: people walk on the streets for hours, wasting their own time, as well as the time of cops and drivers. They do this in order to have the government change its ...
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Is it true that there is no method of initiating a direct citizen referendum in the US, which a number of other countries have?
Just looking for confirmation that many countries have ways for citizens to vote directly on rulings on the federal level but that the US has absolutely no similar such construct.
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Have politicians led recall campaigns?
Why have U.S. politicians (mostly Republican, it seems) fought election fraud in the courts instead of using their following of voters to sign a recall petition against the candidates they thought ...
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Why did a majority vote against the 2010 French Guianan status referendum?
French Guianan voters were asked whether they wanted more power to be
given to the local government based in Cayenne.[3] French Guiana was
an overseas region and an overseas department of France, ...
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Which is the most recent European country that joined the EU without a referendum?
Twice, in 1972 and in 1994, the Norwegian government had tried to join
the EU (still the EEC, in 1973) and by doing so, leave the EFTA.
However, both the times, the membership of the EU was rejected ...
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Was 1992 Bosnian Independence referendum a sham voting, in light of 99.7% of votes "For"? [closed]
One thing that caught my eye in the referendum results cited in Wikipedia seemed improbably high at 92.7% for the independence.
The turnout to the referendums was reported as 63.7%, with 92.7% of ...
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Effect of wording on outcome of referendum
In this famous episode of "Yes, Prime Minister", Sir Humphrey explains how it is possible to get two opposite results to the same opinion poll, by changing the wording and the framing. I ...
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Need help understanding NYS 2023 ballot proposals [closed]
The ballot proposals state:
A. The proposed amendment to Article 8, section 4 of the Constitution
removes the special constitutional debt limitation now placed on small
city school districts, so they ...
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What were the policy objectives sought to be achieved by California’s proposition 47?
Prop 47 modified the status of shoplifting under a certain value threshold from a felony into a misdemeanour for the first offence. What was the objective and impetus for doing this?
What were the ...
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Besides Iran, are there any other countries which have held referendums to determine the future political system with only one candidate?
On 30-31 March, 1979 a referendum was held in Iran to determine the political system of the country (Previously the monarchial regime had been overthrown on February 11, 1979).
But the problem with ...
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Why have European regions with strong desires for independence not been allowed to have either local parliaments or referendums? [closed]
Is it the fault of the government's progressiveness that regions with strong desires for independence and self-rule, such as Corsica, the Basque region, Catalonia, Bavaria, Moravia, and Sicily, have ...
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