(Source: Hsozkult)
We learned of a call for papers for a conference dealing
i.a. with historical perspectives on referenda and elections in Giessen,
Germany.
“Representative democracy is in crisis. Politicians and parties
encounter increasing dis-trust and have more and more trouble to represent all
citizens.. While it is evidently chal-lenging to respond to highly
particularised interests in today’s diversified societies, ‘popu-list’ and
right wing parties try to mobilise citizens by presenting seemingly easy
solutions to pressing issues. At the same time, we see an increased use of
measures of direct de-mocracy, especially referenda. In the recent years, a
number of controversial and hotly debated referenda was implemented. The Brexit
referendum in 2016, the Catalan inde-pendence referendum 2017, the
constitutional referendum in Turkey in 2017 and the migrant quota referendum in
Hungary in 2016 are only a few cases in point. These ex-amples reveal two
important characteristics of recent referenda, first, that they are
imple-mented in quite different political figurations, from established democracies
to authoritari-an states. Second that they are failure-prone, since they do not
always have the out-comes their initiators expect […]”
The full call can be found on Hsozkult.de
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