Add to ORKGDepending on their design, referendums can be bad for democracy, writes Joseph Lacey. He argues that the central problem with the Brexit referendum was its ad hoc nature. Any second referendum would be of a similar sort and so should be avoided. But there is a way of legitimately deciding upon questions of EU membership: through the mandatory referendum
It is now six years since Britain voted for Brexit. Drawing on a recent book, Benjamin Hawkins emplo...
When people are deciding how to vote in a referendum, do they take their cue from party loyalty or b...
Brexit has given rise to a range of critical issues. For example, was the composition of the elector...
A number of things were wrong with the 2016 referendum, including the disenfranchisement of key stak...
Two years on from the Brexit vote, the benefits of a second referendum are being hotly debated. In t...
In recent weeks, there has been widespread discussion of the possibility of a new referendum later i...
In an extract from his new book, Democracy and Its Crisis, AC Grayling (New College of the Humanitie...
Should there be a second referendum on EU membership? For obvious reasons, it is Remainers who are l...
The offer of 'a second referendum' is too vague to elicit a useful response, writes Jennifer Hornsby...
Andrew Blick outlines some of the constitutional issues to which the question of a second EU referen...
Before and during its party conference the Labour Party may have encouraged confusion on the questio...
In Government by Referendum, Matt Qvortrup makes the case that rather than pose a challenge to democ...
Britons did not vote over what type of relationship or association the UK should have with the EU po...
Prior to the Brexit referendum in 2016, many observers expected that floating voters would swing tow...
In Government by Referendum, Matt Qvortrup makes the case that rather than pose a challenge to democ...
It is now six years since Britain voted for Brexit. Drawing on a recent book, Benjamin Hawkins emplo...
When people are deciding how to vote in a referendum, do they take their cue from party loyalty or b...
Brexit has given rise to a range of critical issues. For example, was the composition of the elector...
A number of things were wrong with the 2016 referendum, including the disenfranchisement of key stak...
Two years on from the Brexit vote, the benefits of a second referendum are being hotly debated. In t...
In recent weeks, there has been widespread discussion of the possibility of a new referendum later i...
In an extract from his new book, Democracy and Its Crisis, AC Grayling (New College of the Humanitie...
Should there be a second referendum on EU membership? For obvious reasons, it is Remainers who are l...
The offer of 'a second referendum' is too vague to elicit a useful response, writes Jennifer Hornsby...
Andrew Blick outlines some of the constitutional issues to which the question of a second EU referen...
Before and during its party conference the Labour Party may have encouraged confusion on the questio...
In Government by Referendum, Matt Qvortrup makes the case that rather than pose a challenge to democ...
Britons did not vote over what type of relationship or association the UK should have with the EU po...
Prior to the Brexit referendum in 2016, many observers expected that floating voters would swing tow...
In Government by Referendum, Matt Qvortrup makes the case that rather than pose a challenge to democ...
It is now six years since Britain voted for Brexit. Drawing on a recent book, Benjamin Hawkins emplo...
When people are deciding how to vote in a referendum, do they take their cue from party loyalty or b...
Brexit has given rise to a range of critical issues. For example, was the composition of the elector...