Let the People Rule (eBook)

How Direct Democracy Can Meet the Populist Challenge

John G. Matsusaka (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
312 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-19975-7 (ISBN)

Infos

How referendums can diffuse populist tensions by putting power back into the hands of the peoplePropelled by the belief that government has slipped out of the hands of ordinary citizens, a surging wave of populism is destabilizing democracies around the world. As John Matsusaka reveals in Let the People Rule, this belief is based in fact. Over the past century, while democratic governments have become more efficient, they have also become more disconnected from the people they purport to represent. The solution Matsusaka advances is familiar but surprisingly underused: direct democracy, in the form of referendums. While this might seem like a dangerous idea post-Brexit, there is a great deal of evidence that, with careful design and thoughtful implementation, referendums can help bridge the growing gulf between the government and the people.Drawing on examples from around the world, Matsusaka shows how direct democracy can bring policies back in line with the will of the people (and provide other benefits, like curbing corruption). Taking lessons from failed processes like Brexit, he also describes what issues are best suited to referendums and how they should be designed, and he tackles questions that have long vexed direct democracy: can voters be trusted to choose reasonable policies, and can minority rights survive majority decisions? The result is one of the most comprehensive examinations of direct democracy to date-coupled with concrete, nonpartisan proposals for how countries can make the most of the powerful tools that referendums offer.With a crisis of representation hobbling democracies across the globe, Let the People Rule offers important new ideas about the crucial role the referendum can play in the future of government.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.2.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 29 b/w illus. 9 tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Abortion • Abortion Law • Abortion-rights movements • abstention • activism • Act of Parliament • administrative state • Admission to the Union • advantages and disadvantages of direct democracy • Advocacy group • African Americans • Amendment • americans • aristocracy • armistice • authoritarianism • autocracy • ballot • Ballot measure • ballot measures • Basic structure doctrine • Bernie Sanders • Bill (law) • Boris Johnson • bureaucrat • By-law • Calculation • California Proposition 13 (1978) • Campaign finance • candidate • caucus • chief justice • Citizenship • civil service • Civil Society • Compromise of 1850 • Consideration • constitutional amendment • Constitutional Amendments • Consumption (Economics) • counsel • court • Criticism • Cultural Backlash • culture war • de facto • demagogue • Democracy • democracy crisis • Dictatorship • Direct Democracy • direct election • Disconnect • Donald Trump • Election • Elite • Employment • Encumbrance • European Citizens' Initiative • European Union • Executive Agreement • Exit poll • Explanation • FARC • far-left politics • far-right politics • Federal government of the United States • federal referendums • Fiscal conservatism • fixing democracy • freedom of speech • Fundamental Rights • Globalization • Government • Government bond • government spending • Harriet Beecher Stowe • Howard Fineman • how to fix democracy • Ideology • Import • Incentive • Incest • Individual and group rights • industrial democracy • industrialisation • influence of judges • initiatives • Institution • interest group capture • jacksonian democracy • Judicial Activism • Judicial Independence • judicial influence • Judicial Lawmaking • Law • Lawmaking • left-wing politics • Legislation • Legislator • Legislature • Legitimacy (political) • Litmus test (politics) • Livelihood • lobbying • majority • majority rule • Major party • Mandatory referendum • Market Economy • Market power • Member of Congress • Merchant bank • minority group • Minority rights • Moral Majority • Morris Fiorina • Motion of no confidence • New Laws • new people • Nigel Farage • Nomination • of education • official language • Oligarchy • Open border • Opinion Poll • Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development • Parag Khanna • Party leader • Payment • Peace treaty • Pemex • petitioner • Pew Research Center • Pippa Norris • Plutocracy • polarization • Policy • political class • Political culture • Political organization • Political Party • political revolution • Political Science • Politician • Politics • politics of the united states • Populism • Post-war consensus • Preference (economics) • President of the United States • Primary Election • proclamation • procurement • Progressive Era • Property Tax • Proposition 13 • public administration • Public consultation • Public Interest • Public Opinion • Public Participation • Public Policy • Public sphere • punishment • Question of law • ratification • rebuke • referenda • Referendum • Reform Movement • Regime • Regulation • Regulatory Agency • repeal • representation crisis • Representative Democracy • Republican Party (United States) • Requirement • Respondent • revolutionary movement • right-wing politics • Roe v. Wade • Ronald Inglehart • rulemaking • Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Same-Sex Marriage • sanctity of life • Self-Governance • Service record • Sierra Club • Slavery • social issue • Sovereign People • Sovereignty • Standard-bearer • State constitution (Australia) • State constitution (United States) • State Government • State law (United States) • Statute • Statutory interpretation • Suffrage • Suggestion • supermajority • Supporter • Supranational union • supreme court of the united states • Task Force • Tax • Tax Cut • Taxpayer • technocracy • Term limit • The Administrative State • The People vs. Democracy • The Political Machine • The Political Process • Theresa May • To the Contrary • Trade Union • Treaty • two-party system • unelected judges • unelected officials • Unintended Consequences • United Kingdom • United Kingdom European Union membership referendum, 2016 • United Kingdom withdrawal from the European Union • United States constitution • United States Office of Government Ethics • United States Senate • Upper house • Veto • Vote Counting • Voting • Voting Behavior • Water Treatment • Wealth • welfare • women's rights • women's suffrage • Woodrow Wilson • Workforce • World War II • Yascha Mounck
• ISBN-10: 0-691-19975-2 / 0691199752
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-19975-7 / 9780691199757