In this article, we examine whether a deliberative mini-public can provide trusted source of information in the context polarized referendum. Political polarization gives rise to selective distrust those on ‘other side’. The Citizens’ Jury Referendum Options Korsholm, Finland, was organized conjunction with referendum municipal merger. Our analysis is based field experiment measuring effects re...

A hybrid stated-preference model is developed that combines the referendum contingent valuation response format with an experimentally designed set of attributes. A sequence of valuation questions is asked to a random sample in a mail-out mail-back format. Econometric analysis shows that willingness to pay for policy attributes is formed dynamically.

In a recent paper published in MSS, Wilson and Pritchard (2007) suggest that the limiting probability of the referendum paradox given in Feix et al. (2004) is not correct. Using three distinct analytical and complementary methods, we show in this note that this suggestion is to be rejected.

Abstract As marriage is defined in post‐socialist Romania as the union of two spouses and not specifically between a man woman, legalisation homosexuality 2002 created possibility for legal same‐sex more inclusive sexual citizenship. By 2018, political alliance mobilised referendum to redefine way that would make families headed by couples impossible. LGBT rights organisations others who promot...

Ex ante willingness to pay to prevent adverse environmental change depends on people's perceptions about just how bad the situation will become if mitigation policies are not adopted. These perceptions are influenced by an array of external information sources that might be deemed more or less credible by individuals. I describe an empirical game plan wherein people's native prior distributions...

The Notre Dame/Saint M ary’s Nuclear Freeze Coalition organized its campaign fo r a unilateral freeze referendum last night amid discus­ sion and dissension. Kevin Walsh, president o f C ILA , interrupted the organizational meeting with a plea that the Nuclear Freeze Coalition postpone voting on their issue until March 2 instead o f Feb. 8, when it had been previously scheduled. Walsh was conce...

W.L. Miller Chris Allen Department of Politics University of Edinburgh No Gods and Precious Few Heroes: Scotland 191480. London: Edward Arnold, 1981, 182pp The End of British Politics? Scots and English Political Behaviour in the Seventies. Oxford: Clarendon, 1981, 28lpp J. Bochel,D. Denver, The Referendum Experience: Scotland 1979. & A. Macartney (eds.)Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 198!...

The political fallout of the referendum against 'mass migration' in Switzerland could damage the country's reputation as a hub for international scientific collaboration. Worse still, by encouraging anti-immigration parties across Europe ahead of the European elections, it could ring in a new era of barriers to the exchange of people, skills and experience. Michael Gross reports.