Direct Democracy in the Baltic States : Institutions, Procedures and Practice in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Studien des Instituts fuer Ostrecht Muenchen
ISBN-10
3631652984
ISBN-13
9783631652985
Edition
New
Publisher
Peter Lang AG
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Peter Lang AG
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 23rd, 2015
Print length
192 Pages
Weight
358 grams
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21.70 x 15.30 x 1.60 cms
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Political science & theoryComparative lawCitizenship & nationality law
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In the Baltic States, referendums are being activated either automatically, by public authorities or by the citizens. In each republic, however, there are several citizen-unfriendly legal obstacles that do not only restrict the use of these democratic tools but also lead to a poor performance in generating binding popular decisions.
Over the last decades, provisions for direct democracy have increasingly been added to new constitutions around the world, including in the Baltic States of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Using a comparative legal approach, this book identifies a large set of direct democratic instruments in the Baltics that are being activated either automatically, by public authorities or by the citizens. Although direct democracy should empower the people to share state power and to take political decisions over the heads of their representatives, the results of its practical use between 1991 and 2014 do not confirm these assumptions. Besides informal aspects there are many procedural obstacles in each country that restrict not only the use of such tools but also the chance that the referendum will pass.
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