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handle is hein.amenin/aeiaavm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: The Referendum Device, edited by Austin Ranney, focuses on ques- tions about the increasing use of direct popular votes to approve or reject policies and institutions. Such referendums have been used on at least some occasions by most Western democracies, and since the 1970s they have been employed especially as a device to reform, supple- ment, or even bypass representative government. Perhaps the most dramatic recent developments have taken place in the United Kingdom, where in the 1970s, for the first time, national referendums have played a major role. Against this background a conference on the referendum device, jointly sponsored by the American Enterprise Institute and the Hansard Society, was held at Ditchley Park, Oxfordshire. This volume contains the essays presented there, together with the accompanying discussions: * Reflections on Referendums, discussion led by Philip Goodhart and J. Enoch Powell * Types of Referendum, Nevil Johnson * The American Experience, 1778-1978, Eugene C. Lee * The World Experience, David Butler * Regulating the Referendum, Austin Ranney * Referendums and the European Community, Anthony King * Referendums and Separatism I, Philip Goodhart * Referendums and Separatism II, Vernon Bogdanor * Summing Up: Referendums for Britain? Bryan Keith-Lucas Austin Ranney, the editor of this volume, is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, former president of the American Political Science Association, and coeditor of Referendums: A Compara- tive Study of Practice and Theory (AEI, 1978). American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 US $12.00 H CD CD CD CD CD C) CD A Cunfeniace Sponsored by The nelican Enterpn~a Ins Wow ni Public P~licv R~earch and tin Hanson! Society for Parliamen tars Go~ cram eni The Referendum Device Edited by Austin Ranney DwDF- FDFD F ED - ~El 111 __ ISBN-13: 978-0-8447-2196-5 ISBN-10: 0-8447-2196-4 51200 9 r80844 721965

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