El. knyga: Referendums as Representative Democracy

An important book * British Association of Comparative Law * This book is a brilliant attack on part of the current constitutionalist orthodoxy [ ...] Trueblood has presented a conception of referendums and representative democracy that deserves to be taken seriously. -- Maris Köpcke, Professor of Legal Philosophy, University of Barcelona, Spain * ICON * Leah Trueblood has written an important book about the relationship between referndums and constitutional change. Referendums as Representative Democracy challeges the way in which referendums have been generally conceived by constitutional theorists: rather than mechanisms of direct citizen cotrol, Trueblood argues that referendums should not be understood as exercises of representative democracy. -- Joel I. Colón-Rķos, Professor of Law, University of Essex, UK * British Association of Comparative Law * Truebloods descriptive account of referendums as, in fact, exercises of representative democracy is hard to fault. -- Richard Stacey, University of Toronto, Canada * The Modern Law Review * Referendums as Representative Democracy is a short yet insightful book that clarifies how referendums are not departures from the normative rationale and practical operation of representative democracies. If representative democracy is at risk, so is the normative foundation of referendums. -- Pedro Nobuyuki Urashima, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil * Public Law, 2025 *