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      <field key="037" subkey="x">englisch</field>
      <field key="050" subkey="x">Forschungsbericht</field>
      <field key="076" subkey="">Politikwissenschaft</field>
      <field key="079" subkey="y">http://www.ihs.ac.at/publications/pol/pw_16.pdf</field>
      <field key="079" subkey="z">Resnick, Philip, Democratic Savety Valves (pdf)</field>
      <field key="100" subkey="">Resnick, Philip</field>
      <field key="103" subkey="">Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver</field>
      <field key="331" subkey="">Democratic Savety Valves</field>
      <field key="335" subkey="">The Therapeutic Effects of Antipolitical Referenda</field>
      <field key="403" subkey="">1. Ed.</field>
      <field key="410" subkey="">Wien</field>
      <field key="412" subkey="">Institut für Höhere Studien</field>
      <field key="425" subkey="">1994, October</field>
      <field key="433" subkey="">11 pp.</field>
      <field key="451" subkey="">Institut für Höhere Studien; Reihe Politikwissenschaft; 16</field>
      <field key="461" subkey="">Political Science Series</field>
      <field key="544" subkey="">IHSPW 16</field>
      <field key="753" subkey="">Abstract: There has been a recent wave of referenda votes aimed against the governing political class in various western</field>
      <field key="soc" subkey="i">eties. I think it is necessary to go beyond the nostrums of the 1960s or 1970s in explaining these developments. The</field>
      <field key="ant" subkey="i">-system character of recent referendum voting and new party formation defies earlier perspectives and hopes. They are far</field>
      <field key="fro" subkey="m">being driven by the political, economic, and social radicalism of the 1960s. Anti-government, anti-tax, anti-welfare state,</field>
      <field key="and" subkey="">anti-redistributionist sentiments were very much to the fore. The referenda may reflect less the desire for active political</field>
      <field key="par" subkey="t">icipation, in the way that some in the 1960s may have dreamed, than a negative lashing out, a refusal of certain verities or</field>
      <field key="pro" subkey="p">osals coming from on high, without a clearly worked out alternative vision of politics. But if a significant segment of the</field>
      <field key="pop" subkey="u">lation of a liberal democracy feels disempowered and even disenfranchised vis-a-vis the existing political structures; if it</field>
      <field key="que" subkey="s">tions the legitimacy of the actions of those who rule in its name - is it not better that it have an outlet to express its</field>
      <field key="fru" subkey="s">trations through a device such as the referendum?;</field>
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