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Direct Democratic Choice: The Swiss Experience

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2007

Pascal Sciarini
Pascal Sciarini
Affiliation:
University of Geneva
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Direct Democratic Choice: The Swiss Experience. By Hanspeter Kriesi. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2005. 263p. $90.00.

The determinants of the voters' decision in direct democratic votes have received growing attention over the last 15 years. The reasons for this are mainly twofold. First, there has been a sharp increase in the number of popular votes worldwide. In Europe, the successive waves of referenda on the European Union, up to the recent rejection of the EU constitution in France and in the Netherlands, have put the issue of direct democratic choices on the top of both the scientific and political agendas. Second, we have witnessed important theoretical developments in the study of opinion formation and political behavior (e.g., the contributions of social and political psychology with respect to the role of cognitive strategies, or the contributions of communication studies with respect to media and campaign effects).

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BOOK REVIEWS: COMPARATIVE POLITICS
Information
Perspectives on Politics , Volume 5 , Issue 4 , December 2007 , pp. 847 - 848
Copyright
© 2007 American Political Science Association

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