Voting on Independence and National Issues: A Historical and Comparative Study of Referendums on Self-Determination and Secession

Voting on Independence and National Issues: A Historical and Comparative Study of Referendums on Self-Determination and Secession

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To date there have been fifty independence referendums.Some have been official, others unofficial.Some have been successful, and others have ended in nicabate patches failure.

This article analyses how independence referendums have contributed to more civic engagement and how this use of the referendum can - under certain circumstances - enhance the ideals of participation espoused by the likes of Rousseau, purple and black wigs Tocqueville and Mill.