The three referendums on the European constitution treaty in 2005

Political Quarterly

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 89-97

  Qvortrup, Matt ^a  

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EID: 33646582638     PISSN: 00323179     EISSN: 1467923X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-923X.2006.00734.x     Document Type: Review

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1. It ought to be noted that on 20 February 2005, a 77 per cent majority of the Spanish voters endorsed the constitution in a referendum. The turnout was 42 per cent.
2. See Colette Ysmal, 'France', European Journal of Political Research, vol. 43, 2004, pp. 1006-9.
3. L. Morel, 'The rise of government initiated referendums in consolidated democracies', M. Mendelsohn and A. Parkin, eds, Referendum Democracy: Citizens, Elites, and Deliberations in Referendum Campaigns, London, Palgrave, 2001.
4. L. Morel, Le choix du référendum: leçons françaises. L'émergence d'un référendum politiquement obligatoire, paper presented at the ECPR general conference, 8-10 September 2005, Budapest.
5. See Matt Qvortrup, The Initiation of Referendums in the United Kingdom, paper presented at the ECPR general conference, 8-10 September 2005, Budapest.
6. CSA poll, 21-22 April 2004.
7. For an overview (in Dutch) see Piet Gilhuis, Het Referendum: Ein rechtvergelijkende studie, Hague, Alpen aan den Rijn, 1981.
8. Joop J. M. Van Holsteyn (2005) 'To Refer or Not To Refer, That's the Question': On the First National Referendum in the Netherlands, paper presented at the ECPR general conference, 8-10 September 2005, Budapest.
9. W. J. Geertsema, Het Referéndum: Bijl aan de Wortels van de Democratie, De Haan, Houlten, 1987.
10. For an overview of party attitudes towards the referendum in Europe see Laurence Morel, 'Party attitudes towards referendums in Western Europe', West European Politics, vol. 16, no. 3, 1992.
11. Quoted in Joop J. M. Van Holsteyn, 'To Refer or Not To Refer', p. 34.
12. Paul Lucardie and Gerrit Voerman, 'The Netherlands', European Journal of Political Research, vol. 43, no. 4, 2004, pp.1084-92.
13. R. B. Andeweg and G. A. Irwin, Governance and Politics in the Netherlands, 2nd edn, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2005, p. 87.
14. Quoted in Joop J. M. Van Holsteyn, 'To Refer or Not To Refer', p. 9.
15. Patrick Dumond and Philippe Poirier, 'Luxembourg', European Journal of Political Research, vol. 43, no. 4, 2004, pp. 1070-7.
16. P. Dumont and L. de Winter, 'Luxembourg: a case for more "direct" delegation and accountability', in K. Strøm, W. C. Müller and T. Bergman, eds, Delegation and Accountability in Parliamentary Democracies, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 474-97.
17. A similar vote took place within the Green party. On 14 February a narrow majority of 52 per cent of the party members voted in favour of the constitution (Le Monde, 15 February 2005).
18. Robert Harmsen, 'The Dutch referendum on the ratification of the European Constitutional Treaty', EPERN. Referendum Briefing Paper, no. 13, p. 4.
19. Eurobarometer, 62, December 2004; available at http://europe.eu.int/comm/ public_opinion/archives/eb/eb62first_en.pdf
20. ILReS poll, April 2005.
21. Ibid.
22. Financial Times Europe, 'From Sunday's Non to economic reform', 31 March 2005, A12.
23. See, for example, 'Chirac désavoué', Le Monde, 31 May 2005,
24. and 'La derniére arnaque', La Nouvelle Observateur, 9 June 2005.
25. See 'Les résultats du référendum', Le Figaro, 31 May 2005.
26. Laurence Morel, 'France: towards a less controversial use of the referendum', in Michael Gallagher and Pier Vincenzo Uleri, eds, The Referendum Experience in Europe, London, Macmillan, 1996.
27. Maurice de Hold, www.peil.nl
28. SOFRES poll, 31 May 2005.
29. La Voix, 13 June 2005.
30. ILReS poll, La Voix, ibid.
31. Cited in Harmsen, 'The Dutch referendum', p. 10.
32. 'Hollow victory', The Economist, 16-22 July 2005.