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A referendum (plural: referendums or referenda) is a direct vote in which an entire electorate is invited to vote on a particular proposal. This may result in the adoption of a new law. In some countries, it is synonymous with a plebiscite or a vote on a ballot question.
Some definitions of 'plebiscite' suggest that it is a type of vote to change the constitution or government of a country.[1] However, some other countries define it differently. For example, Australia defines 'referendum' as a vote to change the constitution, and 'plebiscite' as a vote that does not affect the constitution.[2] In Ireland, the vote to adopt its constitution was called a "plebiscite", but a subsequent vote to amend the constitution is called a 'referendum', and so is a poll of the electorate on a non-constitutional bill.
Contents
1 Etymology and plural form
2 Earliest use
3 Typology
4 Rationale
5 Referendums by country
6 Multiple-choice referendums
7 Criticisms
7.1 Criticism of populist aspect
7.2 Patten's criticism
7.3 Closed questions and the separability problem
7.4 Undue limitations on regular government power
8 Sources
9 See also
9.1 Specific referendums
10 References
11 Further reading
Etymology and plural form[edit]
'Referendum' is the gerundive form of the Latin verb refero, literally "to carry back" (from the verb fero, "to bear, bring, carry"[3] plus the inseparable preposition re-, here meaning "back".[4]) As a gerundive is an adjective,[5] not a noun,[6] it cannot be used alone in Latin and must be contained within a context attached to a noun such as Propositum qui referendum est populo, "A proposal which must be carried back to the people". The addition of the verb sum (3rd person singular, est) to a gerundive, denotes the idea of necessity or compulsion, that which "must" be done, rather than that which is "fit for" doing. Its use as a noun in English is thus not a strictly grammatical usage of a foreign word, but is rather a freshly coined English noun, which therefore follows English grammatical usage, not Latin grammatical usage. This determines the form of the plural in English, which according to English grammar should be "referendums". The use of "referenda" as a plural form in English (treating it as a Latin word and attempting to apply to it the rules of Latin grammar) is thus insupportable according to the rules of both Latin and English grammar alike. The use of "referenda" as a plural form is posited hypothetically as either a gerund or a gerundive by the Oxford English Dictionary, which rules out such usage in both cases as follows:[7]
Referendums is logically preferable as a plural form meaning 'ballots on one issue' (as a Latin gerund,[8] referendum has no plural). The Latin plural gerundive 'referenda', meaning 'things to be referred', necessarily connotes a plurality of issues".[9]
It is closely related to the political agenda, "those matters which must be driven forward", from ago, to drive (cattle); and the memorandum, "that matter which must be remembered", from memoro, to call to mind.
Earliest use[edit]
The name and use of the 'referendum' is thought to have originated in the Swiss canton of Graubünden as early as the 16th century.[10][11]
The term 'plebiscite' has a generally similar meaning in modern usage, and comes from the Latin plebiscita, which originally meant a decree of the Concilium Plebis (Plebeian Council), the popular assembly of the Roman Republic. Today, a referendum can also often be referred to as a plebiscite, but in some countries the two terms are used differently to refer to votes with differing types of legal consequences. For example, Australia defines 'referendum' as a vote to change the constitution, and 'plebiscite' as a vote that does not affect the constitution.[2] In contrast, Ireland has only ever held one plebiscite, which was the vote to adopt its constitution, and every other vote has been called a referendum. Plebiscite has also been used to denote a non-binding vote count such as the one held by Nazi Germany to 'approve' in retrospect the so-called Anschluss with Austria, the question being not 'Do you permit?' but rather 'Do you approve?' of that which has most definitely already occurred.
Typology[edit]
The term referendum covers a variety of different meanings. A referendum can be binding or advisory.[12] In some countries, different names are used for these two types of referendum.
Referendums can be further classified by who initiates them: mandatory referendums prescribed by law, voluntary referendums initiated by the legislature or government, and referendums initiated by citizens.[13]
A deliberative referendum is a referendum specifically designed to improve the deliberative qualities of the campaign preceding the referendum vote, and/or of the act of voting itself.
Rationale[edit]
From a political-philosophical perspective, referendums are an expression of direct democracy. However, in the modern world, most referendums need to be understood within the context of representative democracy. Therefore, they tend to be used quite selectively, covering issues such as changes in voting systems, where currently elected officials may not have the legitimacy or inclination to implement such changes.
Referendums by country[edit]
Further information: Referendums by country
Since the end of the 18th century, hundreds of national referendums have been organised in the world;[14] almost 600 national votes were held in Switzerland since its inauguration as a modern state in 1848.[15] Italy ranked second with 72 national referendums: 67 popular referendums, 3 constitutional referendums, one institutional referendum and one advisory referendum.[16]
Multiple-choice referendums[edit]
A referendum usually offers the electorate a choice of accepting or rejecting a proposal, but this is not necessarily the case. In Switzerland, for example, multiple choice referendums are common. Among several other instances, two multiple choice referendums held in Sweden, in 1957 and in 1980, offered voters three options; in 1977, a referendum held in Australia to determine a new national anthem was held in which voters had four choices; in 1992, New Zealand held a five-option referendum on their electoral system; and in 1982, Guam had one on six options, with an additional blank option for anyone(s) wishing to (campaign and) vote for their own seventh option.
A multiple choice referendum poses the question of how the result is to be determined. If no single option receives the support of an absolute majority (more than half) of voters resort can be made to the two-round system or the alternative vote (AV, which is also called IRV, PV, or STV). In 2018 the Citizens' Assembly considered referendums in Ireland, with 76% supporting allowing more than two options, and 52% favouring STV in such cases.[17] Other people regard a non-majoritarian methodology like the Modified Borda count, MBC as more inclusive and more accurate.
Swiss referendums offer a separate vote on each of the multiple options as well as an additional decision about which of the multiple options should be preferred. In the Swedish case, in both referendums the 'winning' option was chosen by the Single Member Plurality ("first past the post") system. In other words, the winning option was deemed to be that supported by a plurality, rather than an absolute majority, of voters. In the 1977, Australian referendum, the winner was chosen by the system of preferential instant-runoff voting, IRV or PV. Polls in Newfoundland (1949) and Guam (1982), for example, were counted under a form of the two-round system, and an unusual form of TRS was used in the 1992 New Zealand poll.
Although California does not have deliberate multiple-choice referendums in the Swiss or Swedish sense (in which only one of several counter-propositions can be victorious, and the losing proposals are wholly null and void), it does have so many yes-or-no referendums at each Election Day that the State's Constitution provides a method for resolving conflicts when two or more inconsistent propositions are passed on the same day. This is a de facto form of approval voting—i.e. the proposition with the most "yes" votes prevails over the others to the extent of any conflict.
Another voting system that could be used in multiple-choice referendum is the Condorcet rule.
Criticisms[edit]
Criticism of populist aspect[edit]
Pro-Russian protesters in Odessa, Ukraine, demanding a referendum, March 30, 2014
Greek bailout referendum, 2015 Demonstration for "NO" vote Syntagma square Athens, Greece
Critics[who?] of the referendum argue that voters in a referendum are more likely to be driven by transient whims than by careful deliberation, or that they are not sufficiently informed to make decisions on complicated or technical issues. Also, voters might be swayed by propaganda, strong personalities, intimidation, and expensive advertising campaigns. James Madison argued that direct democracy is the "tyranny of the majority".
Some opposition to the referendum has arisen from its use by dictators such as Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini who, it is argued,[18] used the plebiscite to disguise oppressive policies as populism. Dictators may also make use of referendums as well as show elections to further legitimize their authority such as Benito Mussolini in 1934, Adolf Hitler in 1936, Ferdinand Marcos in 1973, Park Chung-hee in 1972, and Francisco Franco in 1947. Hitler's use of plebiscites is argued[by whom?] as the reason why, since World War II, there has been no provision in Germany for the holding of referendums at the federal level.
In recent years, referendums have been used strategically by several European governments trying to pursue political and electoral goals.[19]
Patten's criticism[edit]
British politician Chris Patten summarized many of the arguments used by those who oppose the referendum in an interview in 2003, when discussing the possibility of a referendum in the United Kingdom on the European Union Constitution:
I think referendums are awful. The late and great Julian Critchley used to say that, not very surprisingly, they were the favourite form of plebiscitary democracy of Mussolini and Hitler. They undermine Westminster. What they ensure, as we saw in the last election, is that if you have a referendum on an issue, politicians during an election campaign say: "Oh, we're not going to talk about that, we don't need to talk about that, that's all for the referendum." So during the last election campaign, the euro was hardly debated. I think referendums are fundamentally anti-democratic in our system, and I wouldn't have anything to do with them. On the whole, governments only concede them when governments are weak.[20]
Closed questions and the separability problem[edit]
Some critics of the referendum attack the use of closed questions. A difficulty which can plague a referendum of two issues or more is called the separability problem. If one issue is in fact, or in perception, related to another on the ballot, the imposed simultaneous voting of first preference on each issue can result in an outcome that is displeasing to most.
Undue limitations on regular government power[edit]
Several commentators have noted that the use of citizens' initiatives to amend constitutions has so tied the government to a mishmash of popular demands as to render the government unworkable. The Economist has made this point about the US State of California, which has passed so many referendums restricting the ability of the state government to tax the people and pass the budget that the state has become effectively ungovernable. Calls for an entirely new Californian constitution have been made.[21]
A similar problem however arises when elected governments accumulate excessive debts. That can severely reduce the effective margin for later governments.
Both these problems can be moderated by a combination of other measures as
strict rules for correct accounting on budget plans and effective public expenditure;
mandatory assessment by an independent public institution of all budgetary implications of all legislative proposals, before they can be approved;
mandatory prior assessment of the constitutional coherence of any proposal;
interdiction of extra-budget expenditure (tax payers anyway have to fund them, sooner or later).
Sources[edit]
The Federal Authorities of the Swiss Confederation, statistics (German). https://web.archive.org/web/20081210071708/http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/themen/17/03/blank/key/stimmbeteiligung.html
Turcoane, Ovidiu (2015). "A proposed contextual evaluation of referendum quorum using fuzzy logics" (PDF). Journal of Applied Quantitative Methods. 10 (2): 83–93.
See also[edit]
Referendums by country
Popular referendum
Initiative
Direct democracy
Mandatory referendum
Optional referendum
Right to petition
United Nations in Kashmir
Independence referendum
War referendum
Political science
List of politics-related topics
History of direct democracy in the United States
Referendums related to the European Union
Specific referendums[edit]
National referendums on the
European Constitutional Treaty
Superseded by the Treaty of Lisbon (2007)
Czech Republic: cancelled; never held
Denmark: cancelled; never held
France: No (55% with 69% turnout)
Ireland: cancelled; never held
Luxembourg: Yes (57% with 88% turnout)
Netherlands: No (62% with 63% turnout)
Poland: cancelled; never held
Portugal: cancelled; never held
Spain: Yes (77% with 42% turnout)
United Kingdom: cancelled; never held
Parliamentary approvals
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Saar status referendum, 1935
Gibraltar sovereignty referendum, 1967
Arizona Proposition 204, 2006
Australian referendum, 1967
Good Friday Agreement (1998)
Bolivian gas referendum, 2004
Brazilian firearms and ammunition referendum, 2005
Carinthian Plebiscite (1920)
Cypriot Annan Plan referendum, 2004
Dutch Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement referendum, 2016
Dutch Intelligence and Security Services Act referendum, 2018
Edinburgh congestion charge (2005)
Iranian referendum, 1963
Iranian Islamic Republic referendum (1979)
Iranian constitutional referendum (1979, 1989)
Kenyan constitutional referendum, 2005
Montenegrin independence referendum, 1992
Montenegrin independence referendum, 2006
Norwegian prohibition referendum, 1919
Norwegian continued prohibition referendum, 1926
Norwegian European Communities membership referendum, 1972
Norwegian European Union membership referendum, 1994
Panama Canal expansion referendum, 2006
Puerto Rico status referendums (1967, 1993, 1998, 2012, 2017)
Republic of China referendums
Serbian constitutional referendum, 2006
South African referendum, 1992
Tokelauan self-determination referendum, 2006
Venezuelan recall referendum, 2004
Referendums in Canada
Alberta liquor plebiscite, 1957
British Columbia aboriginal treaty referendum, 2002
British Columbia electoral reform referendum, 2005
British Columbia electoral reform referendum, 2009
Charlottetown Accord
List of Northwest Territories plebiscites
Newfoundland referendums, 1948
Northwest Territories division plebiscite, 1982
Nunavut capital plebiscite, 1995
Ontario electoral reform referendum, 2007
Ontario prohibition plebiscite, 1894
Ontario prohibition referendum, 1902
Ontario prohibition referendum, 1919
Ontario prohibition referendum, 1921
Ontario prohibition referendum, 1924
Prince Edward Island electoral reform referendum, 2005
Quebec referendum, 1980
Quebec referendum, 1995
Saint John, New Brunswick ward plebiscite, 2007
Referendums in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom European Communities membership referendum, 1975
United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016
United Kingdom Alternative Vote referendum, 2011
Northern England devolution referendums, 2004
Northern Ireland Belfast Agreement referendum, 1998
Northern Ireland sovereignty referendum, 1973
Scottish devolution referendum, 1979
Scottish devolution referendum, 1997
Scottish independence referendum, 2014
Welsh devolution referendum, 1979
Welsh devolution referendum, 1997
Welsh devolution referendum, 2011
Edinburgh congestion charge
Greater London Authority referendum, 1998
Referendums related to European Union accession:
Croatian European Union membership referendum, 2012
Danish European Communities membership referendum, 1972
Norwegian European Communities membership referendum, 1972
Norwegian European Union membership referendum, 1994
Polish European Union membership referendum, 2003
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "Definition of Plebiscite". Oxforddictionaries.com. Retrieved 2016-08-23.
^ Jump up to: a b Green, Antony (12 August 2015). "Plebiscite or Referendum - What's the Difference". ABC. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
Jump up ^ Marchant & Charles, Cassell's Latin Dictionary, 1928, p.221
Jump up ^ Marchant & Charles, Cassell's Latin Dictionary, 1928, p. 469.
Jump up ^ A gerundive is a verbal adjective (Kennedy's Shorter Latin Primer, 1962 edition, p. 91.)
Jump up ^ A gerund however is a verbal noun (Kennedy's Shorter Latin Primer, 1962 edition, p. 91.) but has no nominative case, for which an infinitive (referre) serves the purpose
Jump up ^ Oxford English Dictionary Referendum
Jump up ^ a gerund is a verbal noun (Kennedy's Shorter Latin Primer, 1962 edition, p. 91.) but has no nominative case, for which an infinitive (referre) serves the purpose. It has only accusative, genitive, dative and ablative cases (Kennedy's Shorter Latin Primer, 1962 edition, pp. 91-2.)
Jump up ^ i.e. Proposita quae referenda sunt popolo, "Proposals which must be carried back to the people"
Jump up ^ Barber, Benjamin R.. The Death of Communal Liberty: A History of Freedom in a Swiss Mountain Canton. Princeton University Press, 1974, p. 179.
Jump up ^ Vincent, J.M.. State and Federal Government in Switzerland, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009, p. 122
Jump up ^ de Vreese, Claes H. (2007). "Context, Elites, Media and Public Opinion in Reerendums: When Campaigns Really Matter". The Dynamics of Referendum Campaigns: An International Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 2–3. ISBN 9780230591189.
Jump up ^ Serdült, Uwe; Welp, Yanina (2012). "Direct Democracy Upside Down" (PDF). Taiwan Journal of Democracy. 8 (1): 69–92. doi:10.5167/uzh-98412.
Jump up ^ (in French) Bruno S. Frey et Claudia Frey Marti, Le bonheur. L'approche économique, Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 2013 (ISBN 978-2-88915-010-6).
Jump up ^ Duc-Quang Nguyen (17 June 2015). "How direct democracy has grown over the decades". Berne, Switzerland: swissinfo.ch - a branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation SRG SSR. Retrieved 2016-01-28.
Jump up ^ http://elezionistorico.interno.it/index.php?tpel=F
Jump up ^ "Manner in which referenda are held". Citizens' Assembly. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
Jump up ^ Qvortrup, Matt (2013). Direct Democracy: A Comparative Study of the Theory and Practice of Government by the People. Manchester: Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-8206-1.
Jump up ^ Sottilotta, Cecilia Emma (2017). "The Strategic Use of Government-Sponsored Referendums in Contemporary Europe: Issues and Implications". Journal of Contemporary European Research. 13 (4): 1361–1376.
Jump up ^ "Breakfast with Frost | Interview with Chris Patten, EU Commissioner for External Affairs on Sunday 01 June 2003". BBC News. 2003-06-01. Retrieved 2010-12-12.
Jump up ^ "California: The ungovernable state". The Economist. London. 16–22 May 2009. pp. 33–36.
Further reading[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Referendums.
Morel, L. (2011). 'Referenda'. In: B. Badie, D. Berg-Schlosser, & L. Morlino(eds), International Encyclopedia of Political Science.Thousand Oaks: SAGE: 2226-2230.
Qvortrup, Matt (2017). "Demystifying Direct Democracy". Journal of Democracy. 28 (3): 141–152. doi:10.1353/jod.2017.0052.
Qvortrup, Matt, Brendan O'Leary and Ronald Wintrobe. 2018. Explaining the Paradox of Plebiscites. Government and Opposition.
Setälä, M. (1999). Referendums and democratic government. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Topaloff, Liubomir (2017). "Elite Strategy or Populist Weapon?". Journal of Democracy. 28 (3): 127–140. doi:10.1353/jod.2017.0051.
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Visit the main page

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values: همه‌پرسی – Persian

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Reifreann – Irish
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Referendo – Galician
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values: Հանրաքվե – Armenian

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values: जनमत-संग्रह – Hindi

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values: Референдум – Macedonian

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values: ഹിതപരിശോധന – Malayalam

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values: Бүх нийтийн санал асуулга – Mongolian

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values: ဆန္ဒခံယူခြင်း – Burmese

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values: ټولپوښتنه – Pashto

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Referendo – Portuguese
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values: Референдум – Serbian

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values: Референдум – Ukrainian

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values: ریفرنڈم – Urdu

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values: All languages (initial selection from common choices by you and others)

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