Preferences for Referenda: Intrinsic or Instrumental? Evidence from a Survey Experiment
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- Zeitschriftenaufsatz
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- Autoren
- Claudia Landwehr
- Philipp Harms
- Autoren-URL
- https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=fis-test-1&SrcAuth=WosAPI&KeyUT=WOS:000490669200001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL
- DOI
- 10.1177/0032321719879619
- eISSN
- 1467-9248
- Externe Identifier
- Clarivate Analytics Document Solution ID: OG3AG
- ISSN
- 0032-3217
- Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
- 4
- Zeitschrift
- POLITICAL STUDIES
- Schlüsselwörter
- process preferences
- democratic innovations
- direct democracy
- referenda
- Artikelnummer
- ARTN 0032321719879619
- Paginierung
- 875 - 894
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2020
- Status
- Published
- Titel
- Preferences for Referenda: Intrinsic or Instrumental? Evidence from a Survey Experiment
- Sub types
- Article
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 68
Datenquelle: Web of Science (Lite)
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- Abstract
- <jats:p> The call for more direct democracy, and referenda in particular, is often heard and met with support from large numbers of citizens in many countries. This article explores the motives for supporting referenda: Do citizens support them for intrinsic reasons, because referenda allow them to exercise their democratic rights more directly? Or are preferences for referenda predominantly based on the expectation that they will produce desired policy outcomes and thus instrumentally motivated? Our survey experiment explores such instrumental preferences by assessing how substantial policy preferences affect individuals’ choice of referenda over alternative decision-making procedures. We show that congruence between a respondent’s own opinion and the expected majority opinion is associated with support for a referendum on a given matter, and thus arrive at the conclusion that calls for referenda should be reassessed in light of the partly instrumental character of procedural preferences. </jats:p>
- Autoren
- Claudia Landwehr
- Philipp Harms
- DOI
- 10.1177/0032321719879619
- eISSN
- 1467-9248
- ISSN
- 0032-3217
- Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
- 4
- Zeitschrift
- Political Studies
- Sprache
- en
- Online publication date
- 2019
- Paginierung
- 875 - 894
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2020
- Status
- Published
- Herausgeber
- SAGE Publications
- Herausgeber URL
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0032321719879619
- Datum der Datenerfassung
- 2020
- Titel
- Preferences for Referenda: Intrinsic or Instrumental? Evidence from a Survey Experiment
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 68
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