The paper considers the problem of defining concept and characteristic features constitutional legal category “direct will people”, as well its place in corpus terms domestic law science. author substantiates a thesis about synonymy people” democracy” gives definition these concepts. some signs direct democracy forms, which distinguish it from other related institutions, specific higher forms –...

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In many important political problems, citizens can directly participate in the decision making through a referendum. Examples include accession to international organizations (EU, Euro monetary union) or Quebec’s independence referendum. These settings are often characterized by uncertainty over the future consequences of the decision, the possibility of (at least partial) learning about these ...

On June 23rd 2016, UK held the referendum which ratified the exit from the EU. While most of the traditional pollsters failed to forecast the final vote, there were online systems that hit the result with high accuracy using opinion mining techniques and big data. Starting one month before, we collected and monitored millions of posts about the referendum from social media conversations, and ex...

n April 4, 2000, Parliament passed Bill C-6, now known as the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. Bill C-6 subsequently received Royal Assent on April 13, 2000. Passage was preceded by almost two years of deliberation and sometimes acrimonious debate. Some of this debate, and related acrimony, centred on the concerns that key healthcare stakeholders expressed as to the...

Abstract Can referendums help increase perceived legitimacy among citizens with populist attitudes? Indeed, public opinion surveys show that are especially in favour of referendums. However, we do not know whether this support reflects a principled desire for different decision-making procedures or an instrumental one (that is, because they expect to yield favourable outcomes). We study questio...