Description: This landmark study explores the increasingly important role that referendums play in the process of European integration. Employing an original research design, Simon Hug effectively blends formal modeling and statistical analysis to assess the consequences of European Union-...
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"By systematically challenging a body of conventional scholarly wisdom, Hug's book advances our thinking about the ambiguous costs and benefits of one democratic-sounding mechaninsm. The topic is exciting, and Hug's findings are stimulating. Political scientists intersted either in further democratizing Western politics or in the construction of international organizations ought to read Hug's study and wrestle with its conclusions." --Perspectives on Politics
"Simon Hug's book stands out through its extremely rigorous explanations." --The European Library "The book contains a number of valuable case studies." --Political Studies Review "Voices of Europe certainly meets its objective of providing a rigorous analysis of the role of referendums in the process of European integration and the governance of European Union. It also provides an important first step in extending the existing literature on direct democracy beyond the local and state level." --Public Choice